You’ll be hearing this word a lot this week leading up to the snap elections. But even if you’re not eligible to vote in Germany, this word may prove equally useful when you’re ordering in a café or dialling a telephone number.

Due to a huge labour shortage, Germany has been encouraging skilled workers from abroad to help fill up the labour market. We look at how many visas are being issued for this purpose.

European leaders have been left in shock after the US sidelined them in its bid to bring peace to Ukraine and suggested it would no longer guarantee the continent’s security, but will they now take action?

Residential electricity and gas prices vary immensely across Europe’s capital cities. A new index shows that Berlin residents pay some of the highest electricity prices and an average price for gas. Why?

When you arrive at a German polling station, you might be surprised to receive a ballot paper the length of a grad student’s reading list. We break down why German ballots are so unbelievably long.

German politicians make a lot of laws and regulations but on the campaign trail, many are raging against the country’s notorious bureaucracy, labelling it a monster that needs to be slayed.

A two-day strike affecting public transport in Berlin will take place on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Europe’s leaders discuss tactics to deal with new Trump era, a man was shot after attacking a doctor in Düsseldorf, the first cannabis club gets permission to grow in the Rems-Murr district and more news from Germany on Tuesday.

German leaders expressed shock and even irritation following comments made by the US Vice President at the Munich Security Conference. Here’s what the US’s new direction means for Germany, Ukraine and European defence.

Negotiations for better pay and conditions are ongoing for workers in the public sector, including local transport and childcare, across Germany. Should we expect more strikes?