‘I’ll never forget the trail of bodies’: Magdeburg witnesses recount Christmas market attackAs some waited for news of injured loved-ones, locals at the crash scene struggled to keep up with twists and turns of the storySat Dec 21 2024 - 18:02
German Christmas market attack: Five dead, including child (9), as details of alleged perpetrator emergePolice identify driver in car-ramming incident that killed five and injured 200 as a Saudi doctor who has lived in Germany since 2006Sat Dec 21 2024 - 17:02
Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in Europe, but lazy logic gets in the way Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in continental Europe. The only thing getting in our way is what’s euphemistically called ‘the language barrier’Sat Dec 21 2024 - 06:00
At least two killed, including child, and some 60 injured after car drives into German Christmas marketEyewitnesses say vehicle aimed directly at area of market popular with families in city of Magdeburg with driver arrested at sceneFri Dec 20 2024 - 23:47
Two confirmed dead with 68 injured after car drives into German Christmas market – as it happenedDriver of vehicle arrested after attack which took place in centre of eastern city of MagdeburgFri Dec 20 2024 - 22:57
Volkswagen agrees 35,000 redundancies at German plantsCar maker strikes deal with unions that will also see staff forgo planned wage rise and bonuses as VW tries to lower production costsFri Dec 20 2024 - 19:53
Berlin culture cuts described as ‘death knell’ for city’s future Reductions in expenditure painful but necessary step in light of a dramatic slump in city income, says city mayorThu Dec 19 2024 - 18:38
German chancellor Olaf Scholz brings down government and issues spending promise to votersSnap election expected to take place in late FebruaryMon Dec 16 2024 - 16:35
Paris-Berlin express: New rail link throws down gauntlet to airlines Good prices, low emissions and unlimited luggage allowance of fast train between European powerhouse cities give planes a run for their moneyMon Dec 16 2024 - 14:33
Germany awaits political duel between Scholz and Merz Scholz will use his last Bundestag address to defend his government’s record, matching higher spending on security with more generous welfareSun Dec 15 2024 - 16:32
Polish PM Donald Tusk emerges to take leading role on UkraineAs Poland prepares to inherit European Union presidency, its prime minister is in the EU spotlightFri Dec 13 2024 - 19:15
Third-century ‘sensation’: Tiny silver scroll the oldest written proof of Christianity north of AlpsScroll was held in silver amulet worn by man buried outside Frankfurt between 230 and 270 ADThu Dec 12 2024 - 19:49
EU’s Schengen free travel area not so free as Germany imposes more border checksFounding member states are chipping away at the original idea - some would say ideal - of SchengenMon Dec 09 2024 - 05:00
Volkswagen blues: Carmaker struggles to build a business for an EV future Management, unions and owners face off at Wolfsburg plant in VW heartland against background of financial and reputational hangover from ‘dieselgate’Fri Dec 06 2024 - 05:00
Volkswagen workers strike in latest unrest at carmaking giantTwo-hour stoppages can slow production on hundreds of cars at a timeTue Dec 03 2024 - 06:00
‘It is a right that was violently taken away’: The Jews who want to be German againJews whose family members fled the Nazis in the 1930s have reclaimed their German citizenshipSun Dec 01 2024 - 06:00
Pressure builds for Germany to drop ‘debt brake’Brake back in spotlight after Angela Merkel came out in favour of reforming the spending ruleFri Nov 29 2024 - 06:00
Left-conservative BSW of Sahra Wagenknecht agrees coalition deals in two eastern German statesSahra Wagenknecht's party will share power in Brandenburg and Thuringia after attracting support with demands on Ukraine and immigrationThu Nov 28 2024 - 17:37
Freedom. Memoirs 1954-2021 by Angela Merkel: A disappointing, dreary dudAll tell, little show, this memoir is strong on what happened but less so on why - and it gets worse as it continues.Tue Nov 26 2024 - 10:08
Old habits die hard as Angela Merkel keeps tight hold on information in memoirReluctance to elaborate on the personal and political was key to the chancellor’s political longevity. It is a trait she struggles to escape in her book FreedomMon Nov 25 2024 - 23:01
Olaf Scholz wins SPD candidacy battle but may yet lose election warDefence minister Boris Pistorious looks set to become the party’s most influential figureFri Nov 22 2024 - 16:41
Angela Merkel saw Donald Trump as spellbound by autocratic leadersIn her new memoir the German former chancellor writes that Trump seemed to find Vladimir Putin ‘very fascinating’Thu Nov 21 2024 - 17:00
Once a doctor... Ursula von der Leyen assists in medical emergency on board Zurich-Brussels flightEuropean Commission president stepped in when captain of Swiss flight asked for anyone with medical training to make themselves knownThu Nov 21 2024 - 13:07
Swedish authorities track Chinese vessel to scene of Baltic cable breaksProsecutors in Stockholm launch preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage, hours after Germany dubs cable failure part of a ‘hybrid operation’Tue Nov 19 2024 - 21:11
Germany’s SPD has its Biden-Harris moment as Scholz’s popularity plummetsSlide in polls and Scholz-Pistorius debate have ramped up tensions for ruling party’s Bundestag membersTue Nov 19 2024 - 09:52
German parties agree to February federal electionVote will come seven months early following collapse of coalition led by Olaf ScholzTue Nov 12 2024 - 12:28
Germany’s memory battle over ‘Nie Wieder’: never againOnce the cornerstone of the country’s remembrance culture, the slogan’s meaning has become increasingly blurredSun Nov 10 2024 - 17:32
Winter election in the air for Germany as Olaf Scholz under pressure to get the timing rightChancellor is open to moving poll date forward to January, but some fear early vote will bring high risks for smaller partiesFri Nov 08 2024 - 19:05
Olaf Scholz finally delivers on dynamic promise as firing of Germany’s finance chief blows up his coalitionGerman chancellor morphs from soft-spoken lawyer into Scholzilla on live TV, saying there is ‘no basis of trust for further co-operation’Thu Nov 07 2024 - 20:19
Germany’s coalition stands on a knife edge after Olaf Scholz fires finance ministerChancellor accuses FDP leader Christian Lindner of ‘egotism’, but will wait until January to call snap electionWed Nov 06 2024 - 21:37
ECHR to examine case of Irishman Oisín Osborn, shot dead by Hamburg police in May 2019 Osborn family believe killing of son resulted from excessive police forceTue Nov 05 2024 - 15:41
German police arrest eight suspected members of right-wing group plotting ‘ethnic cleansing’ campaignProsecutors say members 'share a fundamental renunciation of the free democratic order' of the German stateTue Nov 05 2024 - 10:35
Multi-billion stimulus plan proposed for GermanyGerman economics minister Robert Habeck argues country trapped in vicious circle of low growth and a tight fiscal corsetThu Oct 24 2024 - 06:00
Germany’s Scholz faces wrath of business leaders against grim economic backdropChancellor under pressure amid sluggish economy and opposition leader’s popularityWed Oct 23 2024 - 06:00
Where is our hot moral indignation when it comes to the fathers of the babies found at Tuam?Small Things Like These misses an essential truth about Catholic IrelandMon Oct 21 2024 - 06:15
German mayor resigns over homophobic abuseNeubrandenburg’s town council has voted to ban the LGBT+ rainbow flag from its train stationFri Oct 18 2024 - 18:08
Biden calls for greater backing for Ukraine and praises German support on short visit to Berlin US president in Germany to hold talks with Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Keir StarmerFri Oct 18 2024 - 15:39
Germany wrestles with its arms sales to IsraelLegal and ideological concerns including claims of genocide influence Berlin as it calibrates its supply of weapons in the context of the wars in Gaza and LebanonTue Oct 15 2024 - 18:50
EU considers controversial deportation sites outside its bordersProposal would see asylum seekers deported to ‘hubs’ outside of the EU then returned to home countriesTue Oct 15 2024 - 16:31
Ex-Stasi officer sentenced over Berlin Wall killing in 1974Polish man Czeslaw Kukuczka was shot in the back as he tried to escape to West GermanyMon Oct 14 2024 - 19:16
Germany struggles with complexities of its relationship with Israel as war and suffering continueIn the country of the Holocaust, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian camps have spent the last year facing off on a daily basisThu Oct 10 2024 - 18:52
Populist German politicians agree on Russia but clash on migration in first debate Parties of two alpha females of German politics now attract nearly 30% of national support in opinion pollsThu Oct 10 2024 - 15:12
How Hazel Behan was treated in German rape trial of Madeleine McCann suspect Presiding judge Uta Engemann has been criticised for her lack of sensitivity and empathy with Hazel Behan. She asked questions that prompted regular gasps from the public galleryTue Oct 08 2024 - 20:14
Chief suspect in Madeleine McCann case acquitted by German court of rape of Irish womanAccusations against Christian Brückner, unrelated to McCann case, included the sexual assault of Hazel BehanTue Oct 08 2024 - 10:53
Up in smoke: Germany’s bright new cannabis dawn obscured by cloud of bureaucracyRecreational drug legalised in April, but promised licensed shops have not materialised, while cannabis clubs are still waiting for permitsTue Oct 01 2024 - 17:47
Warsaw’s former police chief accused of accidentally blowing hole in headquarters with grenade launcherJaroslaw Szymczyk thought grenade launcher was a loudspeaker, say reportsTue Oct 01 2024 - 13:22
Austria’s victorious right-wing Freedom Party scored best with closed-border policies and unrivalled mastery of social mediaFor jubilant FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl, coalition talks must end with him in the chancellery and his party heading governmentMon Sept 30 2024 - 19:32
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party scores historic election winTough negotiations loom as controversial FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl aims to form governmentSun Sept 29 2024 - 17:23
Life imitates art as populists collapse Thuringia parliamentFar-right AfD’s collapse of inaugural sitting of Thuringia state parliament provides timely backdrop to new play in which populist governor sparks constitutional crisisFri Sept 27 2024 - 16:53
Far-right Freedom Party promises ‘fortress Austria’ and zero-asylum policy as country goes to pollsFPÖ leader Herbert Kickl has shaped party’s populist brand with rhyming, racist rhetoricThu Sept 26 2024 - 20:07
