After a wave of neo-Nazi violence and racially-motivated hate attacks, the German government undertook steps last year to ban the NPD.
NPD demonstration on July 8, 2001
On December 4, 2001, some 2,800 right-wing extremists marched through Berlin
In the western German town of Duisburg, a citizens' initiative has forced the mayor to step down over his role in the Love Parade disaster in 2010. DW spoke to Ansgar Klein, an expert on citizen political involvement.
Mayor Adolf Sauerland has been voted out of office in the German city of Duisburg. Residents who blame Sauerland for 21 deaths at the Love Parade music festival in 2010 forced the vote.
Germany's federal criminal agency is said to have ordered the deletion of data related to the neo-Nazi terror investigation, according to a newspaper report.
The Eurogroup's chief has canceled a meeting at which finance ministers had planned to give the greenlight to a second bailout for Greece. Athens failed to fulfill the conditions in time, so now they'll have to wait.
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Only a few days before the fourth anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence, four Serb-dominated areas are voting on the legitimacy of the Pristina government. It's a referendum many see as unhelpful.
An electronic company has said it would request customs in China to impose a ban on imports and exports of iPads after it won a court ruling against Apple that it owns the iPad name in China.
Ten eastern European countries have denounced a Dutch nationalist website set up by far-right politician Geert Wilders. The site urges the Dutch to lodge complaints about Central and Eastern Europeans in the Netherlands.
Police in Bahrain have used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of people attempting to march to the site of a mass protest that was violently quashed exactly one year ago.