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1 week ago | 
thelocal.de | Ido Vock
Most motorists in Germany will know by now what they need to have with them on the road: a valid driver’s licence, a vehicle registration document, a warning triangle, a high-visibility vest, and a functional first aid kit.
These essentials should stay in your car at all times, since you'll need to present them to police officer if asked.
But what about items you are not allowed to have with you?
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2 weeks ago | 
thelocal.de | Ido Vock
Faced with an aging population, Germany is currently desperate to attract the best and brightest from abroad into its economy - either as students, as jobseekers, or on one of its skilled worker visas.
Skilled worker permits are work permits for people with vocational training or a university degree who want to come to Germany to work in their chosen profession.
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2 weeks ago | 
thelocal.de | Ido Vock
“Roads and cars are important means of transportation, especially for people in rural areas,” the agreement reads, setting the tone for a package of motorist-friendly policies.
For speed junkies, there was some good news, as the coalition has agreed not to introduce a speed limit on limit-free sections of the Autobahn. The SPD had pushed for a limit of 130km/h, but were blocked by the CDU and CSU.
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2 weeks ago | 
thelocal.de | Ido Vock
The coalition agreement between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD), signed on Wednesday, pledges to continue the Deutschlandticket scheme - although there will be further price increases for users in the future.
“The proportion of user funding will be increased gradually and in a socially responsible manner from 2029,” the agreement reads.
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2 weeks ago | 
thelocal.de | Ido Vock
Two years after a legal deadline for hundreds of bureaucratic procedures to be made available online, fewer than a third are available electronically across Germany, a new study has found.
The German Economic Institute (IW) study found that of the 575 administrative services that were supposed to be available online by the end of 2022 in accordance with the 2017 Online Access Act (OZG), only 166 were available everywhere in the country as of January 2025.
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1 month ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Ido Vock
Why does Trump want Greenland and what do its people think? Greenland residents head to the polls on Tuesday after Prime Minister Mute Egede called early parliamentary elections. The vote comes after US President Donald Trump restated his desire to take over the island - currently controlled by Denmark - telling Congress that it was bound to become a US territory "one way or another".
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Ido Vock
Greenland residents head to the polls on Tuesday after Prime Minister Mute Egede called early parliamentary elections. The vote comes after US President Donald Trump restated his desire to take over the island - currently controlled by Denmark - telling Congress that it was bound to become a US territory "one way or another". Almost all the political parties taking part in the election back independence from Denmark, but disagree on how quickly it should happen. AdvertisementWhere is Greenland?
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1 month ago | 
aol.com | Ido Vock
US President Donald Trump has repeated his intention to take over Greenland, the Arctic territory controlled by Denmark. He told Congress that Greenland was bound to become a US territory, and that his administration was working hard to "get it - one way or another". Trump says he is 'just getting started' in speech to US CongressWhere is Greenland? Greenland, the world's largest island, is located in the Arctic. It is also the most sparsely populated territory.
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2 months ago | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ido Vock
Germany has been reborn three times since 1945. The first was in 1949, with the formation of the Federal Republic. The second was reunification in 1990, when West Germany absorbed the communist East. The 2025 federal election, which took place on Sunday, is arguably the third. This was the election in which the old assurances of German politics were cast aside as the country enters a far less certain era, with Donald Trump casting Europe out of the American security umbrella. Start with the obvious.
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2 months ago | 
spectator.com.au | Ido Vock
As was widely predicted, Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has won Germany’s federal elections with around 28 per cent of the vote. For the first time since the formation of the Federal Republic in 1949, a far-right party – the Alternative for Germany (AfD) – has come second in a national election, winning an unprecedented fifth of the vote.
