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Women remain markedly underrepresented in executive positions across Germany, with only 29.1% of leadership roles held by women in 2024, according to figures published by the Federal Statistical Office. About 1.32 million men and 540,000 women occupied management positions in 2024, leaving Germany well below the EU average of 35.2% leadership roles filled by women. Sweden led the bloc with 44.4% female representation, followed by Latvia (43.4%) and Poland (41.8%).

My suggestion is that, once every school year, an extended lesson with older pupils is held that covers various possible threat scenarios and how to prepare for them,

One such TikTok video, that has received more than 690,000 views, says: "Christmas is around the corner, Germany is CANCELLING their markets... and it also looks like other places in Europe are going to do the same." Meanwhile, a post on X, with 25,000 likes, says: "HUNDREDS OF CHRISTMAS MARKETS IN GERMANY CANCELLED." It cites a publication called Duna Press that has a report on markets being cancelled.

Before the Second World War, Dresden was commonly regarded as Germany's most beautiful city, marked by Baroque silhouettes and filled with cherished collections of the fine and applied arts. Then came the Allied air raids of February 1945, and Dresden underwent what could be described as a horrific rebrand-becoming Germany's most decimated metropolis. Decades of rebuilding later, however, it is once again what Germans call a Kunststadt -a city of art.

Kemmerer acknowledged that the case was a complicated one involving a minor crime, with differing versions of events, but said it was still a law enforcement officer's duty to investigate a crime. "He simply did nothing, nothing at all," Kemmerer said in court on Tuesday, accusing the officer of "carelessness" and "laziness." Prosecutor Christoph Gillot had called for a jail term of 18 months, arguing that the defendant "knew" that the case involved "a dangerous assault with a knife."

Millions of employees will receive noticeably more for their work -- and companies can responsibly spread the rising costs over two years,

German dentists have offered a belated acknowledgment of their profession's brutal practices under the Nazis, admitting broad systemic involvement in crimes at concentration camps, including sadistic tooth extractions, human experiments, forced sterilisations and murder. Their central professional organisation, the German Society for Dental, Oral and Orthodontic Medicine (DGZMK), held its first memorial ceremony exposing the atrocities committed by dentists during the Nazi era and paying tribute to the victims, at Berlin's Humboldt University on Wednesday.

The 28-year-old man could be located shortly thereafter on the shop floor of a closed butcher's on the Am Spitalbach street,

Wadephul said it was "in the understandable interest of the Syrian government to create the conditions for as many Syrians as possible to return". However, this was currently "only possible to a very limited extent, because a great deal of infrastructure in this country has been destroyed", he added. "Anyone who wants to return to Syria will be given a tearful send-off by us. But we will understand that perfectly well."

"There are a number of issues that we would like to discuss with the Chinese side, especially at this time," the spokesperson said. While she did not specify which side canceled the trip, the spokeswoman said Germany regretted the development. Is Germany's Taiwan stance behind the cancellation? Despite plans to depart on Sunday and hold meetings on Monday and Tuesday, China had confirmed only one meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

On a visit to Potsdam last week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz talked about how his government was toughening up its migration policy. The primary aim, he said, was to continue to combat what he called illegal immigration. Then he added another sentence, which has since caused a furor: "But we still have this problem in the cityscape, of course, and that's why the federal interior minister is facilitating and carrying out large-scale deportations."

The Freiburg public transport operator, Freiburger Verkehrs AG (VAG), has inaugurated a second e-bus depot and introduced 22 additional battery-electric buses, marking a major step toward its goal of achieving climate-neutral line operations by 2030. With the new vehicles, two-thirds of the operator's bus fleet now run on electricity, VAG states.

Economists credit US President Donald Trump's tariff campaign with reducing trade between Germany and the US, its top trading partner last year. China overtook the United States as Germany's largest trading partner during the first eight months of 2025, preliminary data from the German statistics office has shown. The data indicated that German imports and exports with China totalled $190.7bn (163.4 billion euros) from January to August, while trade with the US amounted to $189bn (162.8 billion euros), according to Reuters calculations.

We're not going to think too much of the European Championship quarter-finals. It is, however, hard to believe that Wuck and his team will not be looking to that Euro 2025 last-eight game for both motivation and inspiration. That match in Basel was memorable a 10-player Germany coming from behind to beat their old rivals on penalties in a game they arguably should never have won but which showed them much about their character.

This year's winter timetable will bring more trains on certain high-traffic routes, a few faster connections and more direct cross-border journeys to destinations in neighbouring countries. With the timetable now in place through mid-October of next year, customers can purchase train tickets for future trips, up to 12 months in advance. So passengers who already know their travel plans for 2026 can secure their rail transport now to take advantage of cheaper prices.

If you're raising children in Germany, you will have noticed that the language they use with their friends sounds like a completely different dialect. Teens are constantly inventing and popularising new slang, and in Germany this often means blending German with English in unexpected ways. Since 2008, Langenscheidt Publishing tries to keep up with the latest trends by organising an online vote each year exclusively for people between the ages of 11 and 20.

What you need to know Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he wants to highlight differences between his party and the far-right AfD even more. Meanwhile, German flag carrier Lufthansa says many domestic flight routes have become too expensive to maintain. The UN has appealed to governments, including the German government, not to force Syrian refugees to return home. Below, you can read a roundup of stories and analysis from and about Germany on Saturday, October 18, 2025 and Sunday, October 19, 2025:

Georgia's leadership has for months been agitating against the EU, Germany and the German ambassador personally,

The Berlin-based researchers found that as the far right moved from fringe issues in the late 1990s to topics such as integration and migration, mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate. The overarching result had crucial implications for democracy, said Teresa Volker, a political sociologist at Berlin Social Science Center and co-author of the study.

Germany's ex-chancellor Gerhard Schröder on Friday slammed a state parliamentary inquiry into the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia as 'ridiculous' and said he did not regret his role in its controversial construction. The inquiry, at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional parliament, is looking into political influence around construction of the pipeline between Russia and Germany and possible Russian interventions in favour of the project. The investigation focuses on the state's Climate Protection Foundation that was allegedly used to shield companies involved in building it from US sanctions.