German industrial output dropped for the second consecutive month in March, but improved over the first quarter, official data showed on Tuesday.
German politicians and religious communities across Germany responded on Monday with fierce criticism to the hard-right manifesto adopted by Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Key indicators measuring German economic morale improved in March, surveys found on Tuesday. Experts, however, warned that Europe's biggest economy faced a cloudy future as slow global growth curbed exports and investment.
Germany's anti-migration party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has recorded remarkable gains in Germany's regional elections on Sunday and is able to break into three more German state parliaments, according to exit polls.
Algerian and German governments have reached an agreement to deport the Algerians who illegally entered Germany a year ago.
The Bundestag, or lower house of the German parliament, passed on Thursday a package of new regulations to tighten asylum rules in an effort to deal with an unprecedented influx of refugees.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday left for an official visit to Germany to further strengthening the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, his office said here.
Germany on Wednesday reported an unexpectedly high budget surplus in 2015, prompting critics to argue the government had resources to stimulate the economy through investment.
The German government agreed on Tuesday to a faster expulsion of criminal foreigners in the wake of the New Year's Eve assaults on women in Cologne by mainly Arab and North African male suspects.
German authorities said on Monday that nearly all the suspects in a rash of New Year's Eve violence against women in Cologne had an immigrant background.
German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung apologized on Sunday to its readers for an illustration to the Cologne assaults on the front page of the weekend edition.
Both Germany's net exports and industrial production shrank in November 2015, official data showed on Friday, concluding the first week of 2016 which initially saw inspiring employment and consumption figures and reminding people of the fact that Europe's biggest economy's growth force was lopsided.
German police used water cannons and tear gas after protesters against New Year's Eve sex assaults threw bottles, firecrackers and stones at officers on Saturday in the western German city of Cologne.
After scores of women reported sexual assaults and muggings by men on New Year's Eve in the western German city of Cologne, German police have identified a total of 31 suspects, most of whom were asylum seekers, German media Focus Online reported on Friday.
German police have so far identified a total of 16 suspects who could relate to sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne, German media Focus Online reported on Thursday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her outrage over series of sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, demanding a hard response from the law, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Tuesday.
The German Federal Cartel Office prohibited on Wednesday the German arm of Booking.com from continuing to use best-price clauses in its contracts with hotel operators in the country.
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