Google for Google News index all the contents published on the net if they are not protected by robots.txt . This procedure has been changed now in Germany because of some legal changes in that country.
Google News in Germany, now asks German publishers to opt-in for indexing their content due to some legal changes in that country.Sites that don't opt into Google News in Germany will be automatically removed from Google News on August first.
Publishers in other countries will not be effected by Google's change.