German officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that caught many people by surprise and left over 180 people dead in Western Europe but they concede that they will need to learn lessons from the disaster. Efforts to find any more victims and clean up the mess left behind by the floods across a swath of western Germany eastern Belgium and the Netherlands continued on Monday as floodwaters receded. The downpours that led to usually small rivers swe

Peter Altmaier, Germany’s Economics Minister, and Finance Minister and SPD leader Olaf Scholz.Mr

socially distance. German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said coronavirus restrictions were still

BERLIN--Google said Tuesday that it is investing 1 billion euros($ 1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The internet giant said it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in the town of Hanau, close to the DE-CIX data exchange in Frankfurt. Google said it would purchase more than 140 megawatts of electricity from the German subsidiary of French utility company Engie over the coming year

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The conservative candidateto replace Angela Merkel as Chancellor Armin Laschet is in a fight for his political life after Sunday's election left the 60-year-old needing to form a ruling coalition with the Greens and liberal Free Democrats in order to maintain the CDU's hold on power in Germany.... However, defeat at the hands of the center-leftSocial Democrats( SPD) has left many CDU supporters and politicians calling for Mr Laschet to step down. EuroNews correspondent Lena Roche said:" The CDU

Last week, France and Germany signed a new space agreement that will see more investment into the Ariane 6 rocket.... " Let's take back control." The accord gives Ariane 6 an “ institutional and commercial future ”, Mr Le Maire said, “ mainly on the market for constellations ”.... " Florence Parly, the Minister of the Armed Forces, says it has fallen from the clouds!...

Open this photo in gallery Military personnel inspects the area on a boat across the Ahr river in Rech, Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, on July 21, after devastating floods hit the region. CHRISTOF STACHE/ AFP/ Getty ImagesA relief official dampened hopes on Wednesday of finding more survivors in the rubble of villages devastated by floods in western Germany, as a poll showed many Germans felt policymakers had not done enough to protect them.At least 170 people died in last week’s floodin

And the economist-who is currently an MP in the Greek Parliament-has listed no fewer than seven areas in which he believes Mrs Merkel is failing to deliver as she prepares to step down after September’s crunch federal elections.... He tweeted: “ I just met a German tourist who claimed Merkel was great for Germany.“ To which I responded: vaccination chaos, missing flood warning systems, bad 4G coverage, Diesel gate, Wirecard Deutsche Bank scandal.“ And that 50 percent of Germans are worse off fi

BERLIN( Reuters)-Conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet faced a scrap for his political future on Tuesday as lawmakers in his CDU/ CSU alliance met to plot a way forward after suffering their first national election defeat since 2002. The centre-left Social Democrats( SPD) narrowly beat https:// graphics. reuters. com/ GERMANY-ELECTION/ RESULTS/ klvykgldmvg/ index. html the conservatives in Sunday's election, leaving Laschet, 60, to try to form a ruling coalition with the Greens and lib