A tornado left behind a trail of destruction and several injured after it tore through parts of North-Rhine Westfalia, Germany's most populous state
Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft said former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is stepping down from the board of directors. Schröder has come under intense political pressure for his involvement in the company
Germany strips former Chancellor Schroeder of official privileges over Russia ties
Antonov Airlines is moving its base to Leipzig Airport, Germany
2 year ago"The United States and Turkey are committed to working closely together to face current geopolitical challenges
Exit polls show SPD, the party of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, suffers heavy defeat in regional vote
Britain: We must strengthen NATO's defense and support Ukraine and other countries in danger
German Foreign Minister Baerbock: Germany will use accelerated procedure to ratify the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO
Kuleba to Germany: Ukraine will be in EU anyway, but you can lead accession process and make history. During his visit to Berlin, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that he told his German counterparts that Germany must make a choice
2 year agoMinister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba: Met @SecBlinken in Berlin. More weapons and other aid is on the way to Ukraine. We agreed to work closely together to ensure that Ukrainian food exports reach consumers in Africa and Asia. Grateful to Secretary Blinken and the U.S. for their leadership and unwavering support
2 year agoNATO's deputy secretary general Mircea Geoana says he is confident Türkiye's concerns over Finland and Sweden joining NATO could be addressed
Berlin: NATO Foreign Ministers will continue their informal discussions today. On the agenda: Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine NATO's new Strategic Concept - to be adopted at the NATOSummit in Madrid in June
Sweden, Finland to discuss NATO bid with Turkey in Berlin Saturday: ministers
Scholz: Three points from my long phone call with Putin today: There must be a ceasefire in Ukraine as quickly as possible. The claim that Nazis are in power there is false. And I also reminded him about Russia's responsibility for the global food situation
Germany decides to reopen its embassy in Kyiv
German chancellor: I call on President Putin unequivocally to end the war of aggression against Ukraine
German Chancellor: We must get rid of Russia's fossil energy imports as soon as possible
2 year agoGermany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has arrived in Ukraine and has visited Bucha
Macron visited Scholz today in Berlin. Scholz said that no one could have known the war in Ukraine would break out, or that "thousands and thousands would experience death and destruction" as a result
2 year agoThere's been a 30-minute phone call today between @POTUS and @OlafScholz, according to the @WhiteHouse
Vučić in Berlin: "Scholz told that EU future of Serbia is not a mirage"
2 year agoUrsula von der Leyen:Today we are presenting the sixth package of sanctions. First, we are listing high-ranking military officers and other individuals who committed war crimes in Bucha. We know who you are. And you will be held accountable
2 year agoNew proposed EU sanctions: complete ban on Russian oil imports; cutting largest bank Sberbank from SWIFT; banning 3 broadcasters; targeting alleged war criminals. Von der Leyen: "Putin wanted to wipe Ukraine from the map. He will clearly not succeed"
2 year agoUrsula von der Leyen: Finally, we now propose a ban on Russian oil. Let´s be clear: it will not be easy. But we simply have to work on it. We will make sure that we phase out Russian oil in an orderly fashion. To maximise pressure on Russia, while minimizing the impact on our economies
Two German Eurofighter jets took off on Saturday to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea in international airspace off the island of Rügen
German Chancellor: Russia's brutal attacks on civilians in Ukraine revealed the extent of Moscow's violation of the United Nations Charter
2 year agoBerlin: police used pepper hits the demonstrators
2 year agoGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a speech in Düsseldorf that Germany will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons.
"With his attack on Ukraine, Russian President Putin has shattered the peace order in Europe," Defence Minister Lambrecht said in the Bundestag today. With the special fund for the Bundeswehr we are responding to the dramatically changed security situation in Europe
After the meeting with the German chancellor, Polish PM @MorawieckiM: we talked about how Poland and Germany could help Ukraine; we need tanks for our army to replace the tanks that we handed over to Ukraine
