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As of April 1st, Germany has legalised cannabis for people over the age of 18, bringing into effect new laws regarding personal possession. Under the new regulations, adults in Germany are permitted to carry up to 25 grams of dried cannabis and cultivate a maximum of three marijuana plants at home.

Five students have been wounded in an apparent knife attack at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal. According to a teacher, the pupils were attacked with a knife and a pair of scissors, German media reported. 

IMF: Germany to be weakest major economy in 2024 while UK downgraded again The International Monetary Fund (IMF) now predicts…

German train drivers began on Wednesday their longest-ever strike, piling on travel misery for thousands of passengers in an escalating industrial dispute that economic experts warn could cost the economy up to a billion euros ($1.1 billion).

The beleaguered government coalition led by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is currently facing a crisis after the country’s constitutional court deemed its draft budget illegal.

Hundreds of thousands joined rallies in Germany against the far-right AfD party again on Sunday, at the culmination of a week of protest that has seen demonstrators turn out in unusually large numbers across the country. 

Court documents specify new charges set against McCann disappearance suspect Christian Brueckner.

‘I’ll go to work and won’t come home. He will come and kill me.’

Europe Briefing – Macron to face the press, Iceland volcano eruption A look at the big stories from Europe today as…

Farmers clogged Berlin streets with their tractors on Monday, honking their horns in protest at a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel.