A majority of residents in rural regions in Germany are satisfied with their quality of life the situation is less positive when it comes to jobs, digitalisation and public transport links, a study ...

Abstract: Urbanization in Germany started earlier than some other countries. At different stages of its urbanization, the problems and challenges faced by rural areas are quite different, and the ...

Community grocery stores in rural regions are getting increasingly harder to come by in Germany. Two pilot projects are investigating whether drones are the solution. In Germany’s rural regions, it ...

German villages and small towns could hold the key to socially integrating a mass influx of refugees who would in turn help revitalise dwindling rural populations, experts say. "The rural regions are ...

While high-speed internet via fiber-based broadband connectivity has advanced considerably in towns and cities across Germany, rural areas still lag behind. But new competitors are trying to narrow ...

Germany’s Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation’s (BMZ) in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has committed the sum of €52 million support for ...

Germany is pushing ahead with the development of smart villages – a move EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said was crucial for developing rural areas. Read the original German article ...

In Germany, more people die of heart attacks in rural areas than in cities. This, however, cannot be explained by the so-called case fatality rate, which is the proportion of people who die as a ...

[TSCHIRN, Germany] Bank manager Juergen Schaller never expected to end up getting a trucker's licence and driving 20,000 kilometres (12,400 miles) per year. But as brick-and-mortar branches vanish ...