As one would expect of the richest country in Europe, Germany offers high quality healthcare, from primary care through to high-tech hospitals and good provision for chronic disease and old age.

It all dates back to Otto von Bismarck, the ‘Iron Chancellor’ who established Germany’s social welfare system in the 1870s. He was reported to have said it was immoral to benefit from sickness, and that “insurance should be on the mutual principle (so that the healthy pay as much as the...

The once divided city has been transformed into a pulsating European metropolis. Berlin inspires, fascinates and surprises like no other city in Germany. The city unites history and contemporary urban living and attracts many visitors due to its unique range of cultural activities.
Victoria Park (in German Viktoriapark) is one of the nicest places in the capital, named after Queen Victoria in 1888, and has today become a green oasis in the middle of the city. Its many paths and a large ...

Berlin needs little introduction. It’s a city finally coming into its own after 50 years of history that left it scarred and wrought in two. Its position at the centre of global controversy, and at the heart of a further series of tragic events in the period following the Second World War, where the Wall scythed through the city separating the capitalist west and communist east, manifesting global Cold War tensions on a physical level to the detriment of a once great city.

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If you’re visiting Germany on a business trip, you can expect all the standard clichés about German efficiency to ring true. Public transport is rapid and timely, city halls imposing and well run, food is fresh and wholesome, and beer served in chilled glasses which have been polished to a high shine.

It’s also a country well set up for business, with the financial capital of Frankfurt boasting the second largest airport in Europe and every city having sterling capacity for travel...

Eighteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which separated capitalist west Berlin from communist east Berlin, this unique city is now finding it’s way as the capital of a reunified Germany. Germany was one of the founding members of the European Union, is a member of the United Nations, NATO and the G8. It is the world’s third largest economy by nominal GDP, and is the largest economy in Europe. Germany has developed a high standard of living and established an advanced sys...

Due to a focused policy of grouping core competencies, more than 200 local contacts in Germany offer the customer the necessary and skilled service required.

The Colliers PropertyPartners (CPP) network unites six property consultancies, each an independent legal entity, under a strong brand name.
This service goes beyond offering excellent contacts in all the relevant property markets. Colliers Property Partners also draw on many years of experience in the commercial property sec...

Germany is an economic powerhouse, a model of forward planning and efficiency, not to mention the fifth largest economy in the world. Everything runs like clockwork and the lasting sentiment of many visitors is ‘why can’t we do things like that?’

For lovers of city life Germany is also a traveller’s delight. From top class bars and restaurants to lively underground subcultures to a rich and vibrant music scene, there’s something for everybody. Choose from ...