A driver steered a white van into Berlin's Christopher Street Day march — one of Europe's largest Pride parades — killing a woman and injuring 16 people, then fled.
Family Minister Karin Prien wants to stop paying the Unterhaltsvorschuss once a child turns 16, after costs quadrupled in recent years. The SPD is already promising resistance — turning a line item in the family budget into a test of coalition unity and fiscal credibility.
EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels as a growing group of capitals push for trade restrictions on Israeli settlement goods. Germany has emerged as the key holdout, leaving the Commission short of the qualified majority it needs to act.
The short version: Stefan Evers is now the man who has to clean up after Kai Wegner's resignation, a new Insa poll shows the Union narrowing the gap to the AfD but Merz's own ratings barely moving, and a Welt analysis argues the AfD has stopped being a niche phenomenon. Together, they show why Berlin's local leadership fight is really a preview of the CDU's national problem.
Kai Wegner has pulled out of running as the CDU's lead candidate for Berlin after mishandling a citywide power outage — and the fallout says as much about Merz's coalition as it does about Wegner.
Germany's coalition rammed its health-insurance savings law through the Bundestag, but family doctors call it a fiasco, an SPD state premier is vowing resistance, and the Constitutional Court is now reviewing the process. It's a small fiscal fix with outsized political risk.
The US has formally approved the Tomahawk sale to Germany, Chancellor Merz says, ending the purchase-or-permission ambiguity. The core claim holds up; the strategic framing is running ahead of the details.
Friedrich Merz used his post-NATO-summit government statement to announce that Germany will buy US Tomahawk cruise missiles. The headlines say "purchase"; the reporting says "can purchase". The gap between the two is where the politics lives.
Two votes, days apart: a hurried German health-cost package and a revived EU 'chat control' surveillance law. Both share the same method — speed over scrutiny — and the second one reaches straight into your phone.
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump's freeloader broadside meets a German pushback from Wadephul, even as allies line up a $160bn pledge for Ukraine. The clash is less about one insult than about who leads European burden-sharing — and whether Berlin can carry it.