This is a roundup of the top news from and about Germany on Thursday, October 8, 2026: Tired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add DW as a Preferred Source on Google. Chancellor Friedrich Merz received relatively new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham with military honors in Berlin. During Burnham's visit, the new Treaty on Friendship and Bilateral Cooperation between the UK and Germany — signed last year by previous Prime Minister Keir Starmer — officially comes into force. Aslo known as the Kensington Treaty, the 27-page document lays out a 17-point action plan for closer cooperation in the post-Brexit era , with the UK no longer a part of the EU.
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