Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday he would speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin again after reinitiating contact with the Kremlin chief last month.

After a landslide vote in parliament, the Deutschlandticket is set to continue in 2025 – but the long-term fate of Germany’s popular travel pass remains unclear.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned against the threat of “new violence” in Kurdish-held northern areas of Syria as she left for a visit to neighbouring Turkey on Friday.

Current news about the German job market is a mixed bag: a sluggish economy has seen many big companies resort to layoffs, while other industries remain desperate for workers. Here’s what jobseekers can expect in 2025.

Berlin passes record budget cuts amid public outrage, consumer confidence is on the up, Scholz and Trump agree Ukraine war has gone on ‘too long’, and more news from around Germany on Friday.

German lawmakers approved measures Thursday to protect the country’s constitutional court from possible future attempts by extremist parties to limit its independence.

To onlookers, it might appear that Germany’s political crisis is deepening after the vote of no confidence in the chancellor and the upcoming dissolution of the Bundestag. But these steps are all part of the constitutional path to a snap election.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party’s conservative roots as an alternative to the far right.

There are three public holidays in Germany over Christmas and New Year, but many shops and businesses close or cut their hours on other days.

US lawmakers are to consider a bill to end citizenship-based taxation – which would mean that many Americans in Germany would no longer fall under the remit of the IRS and wouldn’t have to file yearly US tax returns.