ANOTHER German bureaucrat has taken a key role in the EU – sparking comparisons to the Roman Empire's brutal takeover of Europe. Markus Winkler, a close ally of President Martin Schulz, will become the deputy Secretary General of the European Commission from November. With the position of President and Secretary...
The German parliament has approved a resolution declaring that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One was a "genocide". Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their people died in the atrocities of 1915. Turkey says the toll was much lower and rejects the term "genocide". The timing...
A German opposition leader has had a cake shoved in her face at a party meeting — an apparent protest against her position that not all refugees can come to Germany. An activist threw the cake Saturday at Left Party parliamentary co-leader Sahra Wagenknecht in Magdeburg, the dpa news agency reported. A group calling...
A historic machine used to swap top secret messages between Hitler and his generals has been found languishing in a shed in Essex. Volunteers from The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park used eBay to track down the keyboard of the Lorenz machine. It was advertised as a telegram machine and was for sale for...
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has accused Russia of being behind a series of cyber attacks on German state computer systems. The BfV said a hacker group thought to work for the Russian state had attacked Germany's parliament in 2015. This week it emerged that hackers linked to the same group had also targeted...
One man was killed and three others injured in a knife attack at a German railway station outside Munich Tuesday morning. Police said they have arrested a 27-year-old German in connection with the attack, which took place around 5 a.m. local time at the station in the small town of Grafing, about 23 miles east of Munich....
FURIOUS protesters have demanded that German Chancellor Angela Merkel resigns because too many immigrants have reached the country. Thousands of ‘Merkel Must Go’ demonstrators marched through Berlin on Saturday waving banners reading: “No Islam on German soil" and “refugees not welcome". Police...
FURY erupted last night after a secret German plot to establish an EU-controlled military defence force emerged in Berlin. Leaked draft proposals from Chancellor Angela Merkel's government set out details of a joint European command headquarters and widespread cross-border "sharing" of military units and...
BRITISH Brexit campaigners have been boosted with news from Berlin that Germany is once more pushing for an EU army encompassing all 28 member states with a joint HQ and shared military planning. Along with judicial, tax and immigration issues, a Euro army has for long been one of the main irritants of anti-EU campaigners....
Police in Germany investigating the deaths of two women say they were the victims of a couple who held them hostage and tortured them. They say a man and his ex-wife placed dating advertisements to lure the women to their home. The suspects — Wilfried W, 46, and Angelika B, 47 — were arrested last Wednesday and...
FURIOUS migrants have turned against Angela Merkel en masse and are now BLAMING her for risking the lives of their children by luring them to Europe on false pretences, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal today. Stranded refugees launched a stinging tirade against the beleaguered German leader, saying she sold them a pack of...
A GERMAN railway has sparked controversy after it revealed plans to launch a women and children only carriage on its trains. The German Regiobahn line made the announcement revealing it the launch of the new compartment on its Leipzig and Chemnitz trains, in east Germany. However, the decision to only admit women and children...