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Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday laid out his vision to revitalise Germany's ailing economy at a campaign event in the historic home base of crisis-hit auto titan Volkswagen.

From worries over the frontrunner parties in Germany taking aim at immigration and citizenship to accidentally annoying your German neighbours, here's what we're talking about this week at The Local.

The UK government has agreed to relax a controversial rules on the ETA visa waiver which is now required for non-EU arrivals in Britain, and will from the spring be required for EU citizens too.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris next Wednesday, two days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, Berlin said.

Whether you're wondering about the fate of the dual citizenship law or trying to figure out how the German voting system works, we'd love to hear your questions about the upcoming elections on February 23rd.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is second place in current German polls. If that strong showing holds, what might it mean for Germany's attitude to foreigners?

Going further than its sister party the CDU, Bavaria's CSU has called for a return for eight-year residence requirements for those who want to naturalise as Germans.

A Bavarian ski resort's advertising slogan that could be offensive to English speakers - but is based on the name of a German mountain - has been banned at the upcoming skiing World Cup.

The suspect in a deadly car ramming attack on a German Christmas market was mentally unwell, "massively Islamophobic and close to right-wing extremist ideologies", Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday.

Germans turn to cash-in-hand work amid economic downturn, Magdeburg suspect had 110 dealings with the authorities ahead of attack, Merz defends plans to revoke citizenship from criminals, and more news from around Germany on Friday.