GERMANY is open to signing a labour mobility agreement with Ghana that could see thousands of young Ghanaians take up legal employment in Europe, Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced. In a Facebook post on May 14, Ablakwa revealed that…
SIXTY years after forging ties in the shadow of the Holocaust, Germany and Israel are marking a diplomatic milestone with mutual visits by their heads of state. Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to arrive in Berlin on Monday,…
THE German cabinet has strongly rejected criticism from U.S. Senator Marco Rubio regarding the decision by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency to classify the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a right-wing extremist group. Rubio, speaking on Friday, described…
GERMANY has said it “will not give in” and that Europe must “respond firmly” as US President Donald Trump targets imported cars and car parts with a 25% tax in his latest tariffs. Other major world economies have vowed…
GERMANY reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reopened the embassy during a visit to Damascus, her second since the fall of…
AMID rising uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe’s alliance with the United States, Germany went to polls on Sunday to choose a new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of continent’s biggest economy…
GERMAN police on Wednesday arrested three Chinese nationals on suspicion of smuggling prostitutes, after 150 officers were involved in raids on a brothel, homes and shops in the states of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg. The public prosecutor’s office said the…
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the attack on a Christmas market on Friday Dec. 20 in Magdeburg, Germany. The ministry disclosed this in a statement issued by Kimiebi Ebienfa, Acting Spokesperson of the Ministry on Sunday in…
GERMANY’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is set to begin a three-day official visit to Nigeria today, which will run until December 12, 2024. The German Embassy in Abuja announced the visit in a press release on Monday, highlighting key engagements during…
Germany has officially signed an agreement with Kenya to allow skilled and semi-skilled workers from the East African nation to enter Germany in a bid to address its acute labour shortage. The labour migration deal, signed in Berlin by German…
