Berlin – September 12, 2026 -- German Education Minister Karin Prien is preparing cabinet proposals for an age restriction on social media platforms, citing a direct link between screen time and Germany's weak PISA test results.

Munich – September 12, 2026 -- RTLZWEI will premiere "Maison Tabou," a new reality dating format built around anonymous, sensory-driven blind dates, on September 30, 2026, at 23:35 CET, with episodes available seven days early on streaming service RTL+.

Frankfurt am Main – September 12, 2026 -- The F.A.Z. Institute and QuantiQuest Research & Consulting GmbH will publish the second edition of their "TOP Anwalt" study, awarding Germany's leading lawyers in two special editions of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Rankings split across private and business law segments in September 2026

Results covering private-client lawyers will run on September 9, 2026, followed by the business-law ranking on September 16, 2026. Both will appear in the F.A.Z. print edition and online at topanwalt.faz.net.

Stuttgart – September 12, 2026 -- DYMATRIX, a German provider of data-driven customer experience platforms, has named FELD M - The Data Collective as its newest solution partner, adding roughly 60 consultants across five European offices to its network.

Saalfelden, Austria – September 12, 2026 -- Experience World Saalfelden will launch as a standalone B2B brand on September 9, 2026, consolidating a decades-old Austrian automotive and events site into a single alpine destination for manufacturers and corporate clients.

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler – – September 12, 2026 -- Tax advisory firms lose measurable time every day when ten employees handle the same task in ten different ways, according to tax advisor Ken Keiper, technical director of coaching system Novist. The inefficiency stays invisible during normal operations but surfaces immediately when a colleague covers for an absent staff member or a new hire takes over a case.

Augsburg – September 12, 2026 -- German B2B marketing budgets grew a nominal 2.1 percent to an average of €3.57 million in 2026, even as prices for externally purchased marketing services climbed roughly 12 percent over the same period, leaving companies with less real spending power than a year earlier. The findings come from the 14th edition of the "B2B-Marketing-Budgets 2026" study published by the Bundesverband Industrie Kommunikation e.V. (bvik), conducted with scientific support from Prof. Dr.

Wiesbaden – September 12, 2026 -- Germany's youth welfare authorities granted 174,000 integration assistance measures for children and young adults with mental disabilities in 2024, more than double the 80,800 recorded in 2014, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

Wiesbaden – September 12, 2026 -- Toll-liable truck mileage on German federal highways rose 0.6% in August 2026 versus July, calendar- and seasonally-adjusted, and climbed 2.0% against August 2025 on a calendar-adjusted basis, according to Germany's Federal Office for Logistics and Mobility (BALM) and the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

Frankfurt – September 12, 2026 -- Hertha BSC has completed the migration of its Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central system from an on-premise setup to the cloud, marking the first concrete step in a broader digital transformation partnership with management and technology consultancy BearingPoint.