Sources: CBC
Germany's central bank announces the country's economy will be stagnant in the third quarter, due to high energy prices and rising borrowing costs. 2023-08-21
Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands confirm their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-05-20
Intel pledges €33 billion in investments in the European Union factories and research facilities, including €17 billion for building a chip-making plant in Magdeburg, Germany and €12 billion for upgrading the Irish plant; the company promises €80 billion over the next decade for the EU. 2022-03-15
The Biden administration lifts sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project between Russia and Germany. Despite Joe Biden's personal opposition to the project, the U.S. State Department says that it concluded that it was in the "U.S. national interest" to waive the sanctions. 2021-05-19
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune tests positive for COVID-19 but his condition is gradually improved as he receives treatment in a German hospital, according to a statement from the presidency. 2020-11-3
The Robert Koch Institute reports 2,866 new confirmed cases and 315 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing Germany's death toll to 3,569 and 130,450 total cases. 2020-04-16
Germany hands over to Namibia the human remains—19 skulls, a scalp and bones—of Herero and Nama tribespeople among the tens of thousands killed by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908. 2018-08-29
Shots are fired at the German ambassador's residence in Athens, Greece; no casualties are reported. 2013-12-30
Archbishop of Armagh and Primacy of Ireland Cardinal Seán Brady admits for the first time that he represented the Church when two teenagers abused by Father Brendan Smyth were forced to sign an oath of silence. 2010-03-13
Roman Catholic child sexual abuse investigation: The Dutch Catholic Church apologises and the country's religious leaders request an independent inquiry. A monastery head in Salzburg admits abuse of a boy more than four decades ago. The brother of Pope Benedict XVI admits physically disciplining students at a school in Germany before corporal punishment was banned in 1980. 2010-03-9