on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. The recent passing of state bill AB 1775 allows dispensaries to open Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Some of the newly legal, Amsterdam ...

By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Two days after a coalition of conservatives won Germany’s federal election last month, the governor of Bavaria took to Instagram to say the ...

Nowhere is that shift as prominent as in Germany. Its armed forces, known as the Bundeswehr, have been the victim of years of underinvestment – but that is set to change. Presumptive Chancellor ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Germany will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense and infrastructure investments in a dramatic shift that upends its ironclad controls on government borrowing. Chancellor-in-waiting ...

The restaurant’s most popular dessert is the Lotus cake, and it’s easy to see why it routinely sells out. It’s made with the ...

Germany’s previous coalition government could not agree on necessary measures to achieve the binding national 2030 climate targets and a number of political issues were left unresolved. But in ...

Germany’s future chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday said his conservative CDU party has come to an agreement in principle with the Social Democrats (SPD) to form a coalition government. In ...

Several cafes and counters in Morrisons stores will close (Alamy/PA) Morrisons has said it will shut 52 in-store cafes along with some of its convenience stores, florists, meat and fish counters ...

Germany's Greens on Monday threatened to block a plan to ease the debt brake and funnel hundreds of billions of euros to defense and infrastructure spending. The plan put forward by Germany's ...