Images reveal damage to Nord Stream 1 gas pipelineSome 50 metres of pipeline, which carried Russian gas to Germany, appears destroyedTue Oct 18 2022 - 18:06
Sweden: Ulf Kristersson sworn in as prime ministerCentre-right coalition leader promises to tackle crime gangs and energy costsTue Oct 18 2022 - 17:03
New Swedish PM gets backing in three-way coalition, including allies in far-right party with neo-Nazi rootsConservative Ulf Kristersson leads coalition that signed agreement to ‘limit the rights of asylum seekers as far as is legally possible’Mon Oct 17 2022 - 19:49
German chancellor criticised for ‘obscene’ multimillion-euro office extension Olaf Scholz has greenlighted project which will double size of chancellery, already world’s largest government HQSun Oct 16 2022 - 16:53
Derek Scally: German journalists increasingly reach for the steering wheelA new book argues that reporters have come to value their strong opinions more than gathering facts, and it’s hard to disagreeSat Oct 15 2022 - 00:00
Sweden: Far-right populists to support taboo-shattering coalitionUlf Kristersson, leader of the third-placed Moderates party, is expected to be sworn in as Sweden’s next prime ministerFri Oct 14 2022 - 18:36
German ministers agree details of new €49 monthly national transport ticketMove follows €9 ticket, a successful summer experiment designed to curb inflation and reduce carbon emissionsThu Oct 13 2022 - 18:25
Succession-type subplots make Wagner production the talk of BerlinState opera hits right note with production of composer’s workThu Oct 13 2022 - 16:03
Scholz suggests he saw Putin’s energy cuts comingGerman chancellor Scholz says he’s not surprised Russia has tried to use energy to blackmail its western neighboursWed Oct 12 2022 - 18:40
Olaf Scholz understood to back joint EU debt amid energy crisisGerman leader reported to have shifted position on key issueTue Oct 11 2022 - 18:45
Madeleine McCann suspect charged with rape of Irish woman in PortugalGerman prosecutors file four new sets of charges against Christian BrücknerTue Oct 11 2022 - 16:18
German regional elections: traffic light coalition’s FDP to become ‘more demanding’ ‘Big problems’ as party fails to return to the state parliament in Lower SaxonyMon Oct 10 2022 - 19:26
‘There is huge disappointment’: World’s oldest daily newspaper to cease publication next yearAustria’s Wiener Zeitung began publication in 1703 and has been state owned since 1857Sun Oct 09 2022 - 20:19
Berlin welcomes festival of light amid dark energy predictionsAhead of the most uncertain winter in decades, not everyone in the German capital is cheering the eventFri Oct 07 2022 - 17:27
Swedish investigation confirms Nord Stream detonation suspicionAggravated sabotage suspected on four pipelines built to transport natural gas from Russia to GermanyFri Oct 07 2022 - 16:04
Lower Saxony election a major test for Social Democrats and ScholzFormer state chancellor Schröder has polarised support for party in region over anti-Ukraine stanceThu Oct 06 2022 - 17:42
Energised Scholz names his price for EU debt deal Germany’s emergency energy fund has revived old resentments over its euro crisis austerity demandsThu Oct 06 2022 - 13:11
Germany’s hard left at breaking point as Ukraine stance divides Die Linke partyControversial MP’s call for Germany to end economic sanctions and ‘negotiate with Russia’ receives mixed reactionsFri Sept 23 2022 - 21:55
German police officers who shot Irishman six times have case dismissed Family of Oisín Osborn, shot by police in Hamburg in 2019, lodge complaint against prosecutor’s decisionFri Sept 23 2022 - 18:44
Sweden’s centre-right begins complicated coalition talksModerates leader Ulf Kristersson handed mandate for negotiations after his conservative-liberal bloc wins electionWed Sept 21 2022 - 17:50
Uniper nationalisation underlines challenge facing German governmentThe German government will take a 98.5% stake in the energy supplierWed Sept 21 2022 - 10:55
Rolling with it: German firms try to innovate their way out of energy crisisAs temperatures drop and Russia throttles gas deliveries via the Nord Stream pipeline, the race is on to avert disasterTue Sept 20 2022 - 17:11
Germany takes over three refineries amid energy crisisBerlin moves to cut exposure to future Russian moves to halt supplyFri Sept 16 2022 - 15:34
Oktoberfest: not everyone is happy behind the smiles and the beerIn the next two weeks more than six million visitors will down 7.3 million litres of beer and revellers will gobble up 400,000 roast chickensFri Sept 16 2022 - 15:05
Sweden centre-right holds ‘constructive’ talks on new coalitionUlf Kristersson, whose Moderate Party finished third in Sunday’s election, is set to become prime ministerThu Sept 15 2022 - 18:59
Swedish prime minister concedes defeat after tight electionAny centre-right administration will need support from the far-right Sweden DemocratsWed Sept 14 2022 - 17:53
Scholz demands diplomatic solution in call with PutinGerman chancellor urges Russian president to withdraw troops form Ukraine entirelyWed Sept 14 2022 - 15:42
German promise of cautious military leadership at odds with actions The defence minister has triggered a discussion about the nation’s role as a military powerTue Sept 13 2022 - 18:07
Germany faces winter recession as gas prices and inflation biteIfo Institute sees return to growth in 2024Tue Sept 13 2022 - 05:00
Far-right populists the big winners in Swedish electionSweden Democrats move to the heart of the nation’s politics with 21% of the voteMon Sept 12 2022 - 17:20
John Boyne: ‘Would The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas be published today? Absolutely not’The Dublin writer on All the Broken Places, his follow-up to The Boy in the Striped PyjamasSat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
Concerns about Germans converting to Judaism carry resonance in land of HolocaustClaims of ‘dilution’ of Jewish identity and religious practice amid conversion as ‘bizarre form of reparation’Fri Sept 09 2022 - 15:53
Political discourse opens up ahead of Swedish electionsImmigration and rising energy prices replace the controversial pandemic approach as election talking pointsFri Sept 09 2022 - 13:27
Germany delays shutting down last two nuclear reactorsEnergy minister indicates ‘stress test’ requires policy move in wake of unfolding eventsTue Sept 06 2022 - 06:00
Germany asks forgiveness for multiple failings over 1972 Munich Olympics massacreCeremony attended by the Israeli relatives of the victims, and by the presidents of Germany and IsraelMon Sept 05 2022 - 19:12
Swedish populists in Nazi misstep ahead of breakthrough pollA party official’s invite to celebrate Germany’s invasion of Poland is a reminder of the Sweden Democrats’ facist rootsFri Sept 02 2022 - 12:15
Germany agrees compensation for families of Munich Olympics attack victimsFamilies of Munich Olympics attack victims to accept offer of a further €28 million compensation from GermanyWed Aug 31 2022 - 18:30
German €9 rail ticket to ride reaches its terminusFresh debate begins on follow-up offer for Berlin regionTue Aug 30 2022 - 17:12
Scholz calls for radical reform of EU voting, defence and fiscal policyGerman chancellor says proposed measures will protect member states against Russia and other rivalsMon Aug 29 2022 - 17:34
Germany signs wind energy deal with DenmarkGerman government working to move away from dependency on Russian gasFri Aug 26 2022 - 16:01
Ireland gets showcase at German president’s summer partyAnnual two-day ‘citizens’ festival’ will feature Riverdance performance and virtual reality tour of Irish tourist destinationsFri Aug 26 2022 - 08:41
Oder pollution symptomatic of toxic Polish-German relationshipAt least 250 tonnes of dead fish have been recovered from the river since mid-July amid low water levels and toxic algal bloomThu Aug 25 2022 - 19:25
The playboy, the sex worker and the ‘mother’ of night owls: Berlin says goodbye to three of its wilder characters All three saw the worst of life but chose to seize each day with a live-and-let-live spiritThu Aug 25 2022 - 09:00
Germany tackles money laundering to balance its booksFederal finance minister Christian Lindner aims to claw back some of the estimated €14 billion Germany loses to money launderingTue Aug 23 2022 - 19:43
Berlin broadcasting scandal and executive sacking fires up criticism of mediaLavish conditions and salaries of German TV and radio management add to dissatisfaction with output and annual licence fee levyMon Aug 22 2022 - 19:10
Selective memory poses problems for Olaf ScholzGerman chancellor rejects claims his intervention helped Warburg bank shrug off €47m tax demandFri Aug 19 2022 - 21:33
Poland says toxic algae may explain fish deathsAt least 100 tonnes of lifeless fish have been recovered from the River Oder in the past weekFri Aug 19 2022 - 16:41
Scholz insists he did not influence Hamburg bank tax affairGerman chancellor to face second grilling over whether he helped bank avoid tax demandFri Aug 19 2022 - 11:57
Record train delays bury Germany’s reputation for efficiencyFaced with passenger fury, Deutsche Bahn and the new federal government are scrambling to get things back on trackThu Aug 18 2022 - 20:00
Germany urged to review funding to Palestine amid fallout from Holocaust remarkControversial comment by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin sparks outrage across Germany and IsraelThu Aug 18 2022 - 19:38
