Living in Germany: The new app helping you live like a local

If the last 18 months has taught us anything in Germany, it's that we've often overlooked what's right in front of us. From coffee roasteries to microbreweries and much more besides, Germans are embracing the 'hyperlocal' to live more sustainably and support their communities. Find out how you can join in.

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Army built ‘fake Paris’ to fool Germans

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Germany to invest in building new homes as rent in cities soars by 6 percent

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German football association rejects Özil’s racism claims

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‘Ndrangheta fugitive arrested in Germany

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Merkel and Macron call for ‘peaceful settlement’ in eastern Ukraine

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EU and Germany back Spain over arrests of deposed Catalan ministers

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Denmark could block Russian pipeline

Danish Liberal colleagues split over German election result

Germany refuses to release Swiss spying suspect

Austria and Germany fume over new US sanctions targeting gas pipeline from Russia

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German FM rebukes Switzerland over tax scandal

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France enshrines decision to close Germany border nuclear plant

Germany on collision course with US ahead of Nato summit

Austria says it will take Germany to court over autobahn ‘foreigner tolls’

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Spaniards snap up German training offers

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Commerzbank expansion targets Swiss businesses

Germany cracks down on Italian mafia

Spain doing better than ‘stagnant’ France

Tax evasion trial set for Munich football boss

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King saved Norway from joining Nazis: biography

Coach Löw celebrates contract extension

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Goals galore as Sweden falls to Germany

Germans look to sink Swedish sub maker

Swedes snub German apprentice scheme

Italy convicts Captain Corelli’s war criminal

Italy looks set to send Nazi’s body to Germany

Vatican calls rebel diocese to order

Spaniards stranded in fake German job scandal

Germans mistrust EU but British PM popular

Germans gift Spaniards chance to oust Merkel

Paris car scheme Autolib in ‘spying’ row with BMW

Outcry over arrest of German ‘book thief’

Key German exports eclipsed by China

Businessman builds a used Lego empire

‘Diversity in Germany has become reality’

EU’s Oettinger says Europe ripe for ‘overhaul’

Germany tops world popularity poll

Westerwelle: North Korea ‘playing with fire’

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UEFA ‘faked’ tears for German team

Car workers get early night to watch football

Italy and Germany go to UN Court over Nazi reparations

Deadly E.coli outbreak claims ninth victim

Danes force a draw in friendly match with Germany

Germany embarrassed in Norway friendly

‘Jekyll and Hyde’ Germany hoping for fairytale finish

Turks in Germany mourn loss

Germany’s defence will improve, Löw insists

German jailed for Julius Bär bank data theft

Sweden followed Nazi marriage laws

Why should the world care how Sweden votes?

Armed German headed for Sweden

Baltic pipeline ‘could damage environment’

German controversy over Swedish childcare

Germany tightens border controls

Swedish politician arrested in Germany

‘High explosives’ on motorway crash truck

Germany ferries cancelled due to strike

German Vattenfall boss resigns over nuclear incidents

Sweden to close embassies

Explained: How Navalny case is poisoning ties between Germany and Russia

German government says Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok

Vattenfall to restart German reactors

Vattenfall removes new chief

Danish politician stakes claim to Swedish territory

German pimp suspect arrested in Sweden

100 Swedes in Liechtenstein tax probe

Arboga murder suspect released in Germany

German man admits to killing Swede

Swede held for dramatic 1995 German bank robbery

Swede risks double jeopardy for German heist

German murder suspect takes the stand

Swedish fund invests in Daimler

Reinfeldt and Merkel talk tough on Georgia

Court: German woman ‘guilty of murder’

Elderly woman in Arlanda baggage belt mix up

Lay judge resigns from Arboga murder case

‘No new trial’ in Arboga murder case

Court dismisses Arboga retrial bid

German woman ‘can be jailed’

Marital woes prompt Swede to flee country and fabricate crime

Slander accusations at Arboga killer appeal

Sweden to ban mercury

TV interview sparks Holocaust denial probe

Sweden won’t hasten pipeline approval

Life sentence upheld for Arboga killer

Swedes sought in Germany following neo-Nazi violence

Neo-Nazis ‘part of violent German-Swedish network’

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Arboga murderer appeals conviction a second time

High speed Swede in court in Germany

Swedish navy locates German WWII mines

Bildt blasé over German EU delay

German court convicts high-speed Swede

Vattenfall suffers German nuclear setback

Sweden’s biggest nuke plant under observation

More safety concerns for Vattenfall reactor in Germany

Merkel attacks Vattenfall over reactor

Speed demon Swede fined in Germany

Swedish Rail Destinations: Berlin

Terrified Swede in rental car snake escape

Swede gives millions to German anti-Islam party

SEB may sell German retail banking business

Swedes in semis at hockey worlds

Swedes settle for world hockey bronze

Volvo sales continue rise in Europe

Sweden home to more than 48,000 millionaires

Ambassador gracious in Spanish defeat

SEB ‘has turned the page’ in Baltics

Sweden’s Rosenberg heading to Spain

Vattenfall keeps German plants despite cost cuts

Scania in merger talks with Germany’s MAN

Swedes hold Germany in drab stalemate

Sweden’s Arla in merger talks with German co-op

Sweden’s Pietilä Holmner claims world ski bronze

Arla announces merger with German dairy co-op

German man dead after falling into Swedish lake

Sweden critical of German nuclear decision

Vattenfall ‘may gain’ from German nuclear move

Swedish man charged with child sex in Haiti

German police probe Ikea blast links

Ikea beefs up store security following blasts

Vattenfall ‘worst’ nuclear power firm in Europe

Swedes undone by rampant Japan

German eatery refused King and Silvia

Swedish artist plunges to his death in Germany

Swedish Pirates salute German success

Ikea blasts linked to extortion scheme

‘Record’ salmon pulled from Swedish stream

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Vattenfall suing Germany over nuke phaseout

German theologian: Pippi Longstocking is racist

Ikea boss sacked for ‘pro-Nazi’ Facebook posts

Nazi-era mine washes ashore in Sweden

86 charged after massive booze smuggling probe

Swedish supermodel sheds clothes for naked luge race

Swedish company sent Swastikas to Germany

Whiplash-injured Swede loads crates of drink

Ikea also used Cuban prison labour: report

German ambassador: ‘Sweden feels like home’

US airman emerges in Sweden after 28 years

Sweden deserter ‘still a wanted man’: US military

‘Sweden is more complex than a Billy bookshelf’

Vattenfall sues Germany over nuke power move

Swedes windsurf to Germany in record time

Ikea to build ‘district’ in northern Germany

Germany fears Zlatan ahead of Sweden clash

Sweden shocks Germany with historic comeback

Swedish press hails ‘miracle in Berlin’

Women stage topless demo at Ikea in Germany

Vattenfall in nuclear spat with Germany

Sweden in goalless draw against Ireland

German president set to visit site of Nazi atrocity

Germany opens credit pipeline to Spanish firms

Spaniards score high on job satisfaction

‘Working hours in Spain are too long’

German paper says crisis ruining ‘sleazy’ Majorca

Germany seeks Spanish help on organ transplants

Italian firms ‘could get German state loans’

Eurozone’s big four to tackle joblessness

Spanish call Germans ‘most arrogant’ in EU

France and Germany plan deal for jobless youths

Franco-German motor left sputtering in crisis

Germans damn ‘lazy’ and corrupt Spaniards

Football boss ‘arrested’ over Swiss account

Grillo calls for ‘German invasion’ of Italy

Munich FC boss’s Swiss account becomes German political football

Munich FC boss in Swiss bank tax evasion probe

Credit Suisse targeted in German tax evasion raids

Germans use Swiss bank data for new tax raids

Swiss court orders stolen German millions returned

Spy chief: ‘German princess helped Madrid’

Investigators visit French site of Nazi massacre

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‘Too sick to work’ teacher rakes in Swiss cash

UBS data snapped from computer screen: report

Germans lose if tax deal rejected, says banker

Tax evaders become pariahs for Credit Suisse

Missing girl found alive in car boot in Germany

Germans pursue UBS clients over tax evasion

Germany probes UBS over tax evasion

France: we will strive to rescue Greece

Swiss want Berlin to pay for German students

Relations with Germany are like my marriage: PM

Hollande and Merkel set for clash over bank union

Swiss parties fail in bid to axe foreign tax pacts

German cook fined €300 in spud gun seizure

Germany will nix Swiss tax deal: Schröder

German teen electrocuted in freak handstand accident

German business chief: France must change

German minister wants to ban sale of Swiss data

Swiss banker arrested over sale of German data

German region to buy more Swiss tax data

Hollande to meet Merkel next week

German-Swiss tax fraud row grows

German tax officers buy data on UBS clients

Replica of Amundsen’s seaplane goes on show

Switzerland and Germany in key tax deal

German region to pay for tax dodger data in Switzerland

Key German-Swiss tax deal falters in Germany

German raids on homes of Credit Suisse clients

President issues tax deal warning to Germany

German state buys Swiss data on tax cheats

German region buys data on tax dodgers: report

Three Germans killed in avalanche

Swiss bank settles German tax probe

Police foil forced-marriage kidnap

Swiss increasingly shopping over the border

Germany, France reach pre-euro summit deal

Swiss and Germans ‘to sign tax evasion deal’

Swiss unis ‘may impose quotas on foreigners’

Swiss get closer to German tax dodging deal

Swiss banks cough up over German tax dispute

Some Swiss banks refusing cash withdrawals by Germans

Swiss open to talks on Greek cash stash

Protests as nuclear waste train reaches terminus

Fillon tells Socialists to halt anti-German jibes

Sarkozy seeks support for euro plan

German raids on France Nazi massacre suspects

German-Swiss deal on Zurich airport noise

France ‘to blame for euro woes’

Swiss cake plot squashes Joschka Fischer speech

Swiss seek to arrest German tax inspectors

German minister tries to calm Swiss tax row

Bern and Berlin clamp down on tax cheats

France calls for EU nuclear power subsidies

Germans bosses fear French fiscal slackness

‘Germans are stealing our jobs’: Swiss MP

Hollande: Germany alone can’t decide on euro pact