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According to Spiegel, the ministry procured unusable masks from China last year, which will have to be destroyed. To this day, they have hidden it from the public.

German Chancellor has said that authorities have to assume they are "dealing with a terrorist attack", given the information available in the first hours after a lorry veered into a Christmas market in central Berlin.

The deed will be "as severely punished" as allowed by the law, she has added.

"Brexit means more Germanification of the European Union, and you know that this is not good for us," a Spanish participant told an Italian participant at a two-day conference I attended last week. One Dutch participant, on the other hand, underlined the lack of French leadership within the EU as a key concern for the Netherlands.

Turkish military sources have denied claims made by German magazine Der Spiegel that the German government wanted to build a fixed base inside Turkey's ?ncirlik Air Base, saying they only wanted to construct a "guesthouse." 

German magazine Der Spiegel involves German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in the Panama Papers case which was revealed last week and concern a massive data leak that has called into question the finances of the world‘s rich and powerful.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that a move by her country to close the border with Austria might cause "military confrontation".

Germany will help all people fleeing war and persecution, but considers it just as send back people "who have come for economic reasons and do not need protection," Der Spiegel quotes her as saying.

Members of the Bundestag, the German parliament are under investigation for their alleged involvement in leaking top secret documents to online blog ‘Netzpolitik’, reports Der Spiegel.

The German Finance Ministry denied rumors today in the German media that Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble was considering resigning from his post because of a difference of opinion on the Greek matter with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The “Institutions” seem to be confident that an agreement with Athens will be reached, since a list of measures and reforms proposed by the Greek government is “obviously improved”, and quite specific, according to German magazine Der Spiegel.

At a news conference in Berlin on Friday, the spokeswoman of the German Finance Ministry Marianne Kothe said that German government has no details about the list of reforms that Greece is due to present by Monday.
“We have had no concrete information presented to us”, said the spokeswoman of the German Finance Ministry.