Germany’s response to soaring Covid cases stymied by political rowTop public health official warns that Germany is heading for ‘a very bad Christmas’Thu Nov 18 2021 - 19:43
Poland agrees deal with UK to erect wall on Belarus borderPressure begins to ease at border as migrants brought to Belarusian-run warehouseThu Nov 18 2021 - 18:56
Gardaí appeal for help in locating Irishman last seen in BerlinAlan Curry, 5ft 9in tall with shaved head and blue eyes, last seen at airportThu Nov 18 2021 - 08:41
Familiar faces as Germany’s CDU begins another leadership raceFriedrich Merz bids to lead CDU with solid politics and ‘not by surfing elegantly on the wave of the zeitgeist’Tue Nov 16 2021 - 19:08
New EU court ruling questions Polish judicial reformsRuling is a far-reaching attack on Poland’s justice minister Zbigniew ZiobroTue Nov 16 2021 - 17:49
Germany’s fourth Covid wave aggravated by political crisisNew coronavirus infections are nearing 24,000 a day, up a third on the same time last weekMon Nov 15 2021 - 20:08
Austria imposes lockdown for two million unvaccinatedChancellor aims to ‘tighten the screws’ on jab doubters as daily cases hit record levelsSun Nov 14 2021 - 18:39
Give Me a Crash Course in ... the Belarus-Poland border stand-offSome 4,000 people are sitting in the no-man’s land between Poland and UkraineSat Nov 13 2021 - 06:00
Belarus joins forces with Russia in military exercises at Polish borderBelavia flights from Turkish airports forbidden to carry citizens of Iraq, Syria and YemenFri Nov 12 2021 - 18:05
German photographer’s portrait series preserves Angela Merkel for posterityHerlinde Koelbl’s new book on the outgoing leader is a record of 30 years of political lifeFri Nov 12 2021 - 16:50
Human rights a currency without value in Polish-Belarusian limboEstimated 4,000 people camped near border facing hunger, exposure and deathThu Nov 11 2021 - 19:03
Lukashenko threatens EU gas as sanctions loom over migrant crisisBelarus president calls Poland border crisis he is accused of causing a ‘complete catastrophe’Thu Nov 11 2021 - 17:04
Poland and Belarus face off over migrants in growing geopolitical rowLeaders of opposing countries accuse Putin and EU respectively of orchestrating crisisWed Nov 10 2021 - 19:25
Facebook group and offers from Belarus sell migrants the European dreamSyrians in Lebanon hoping for a better life will need $3,000 and nerves of steelWed Nov 10 2021 - 17:10
Polish prime minister warns ‘stability and security of the entire EU is at stake’Polish politicians fear a deliberate provocation by Belarus could cause serious incident involving migrants at EU’s eastern borderTue Nov 09 2021 - 20:02
Fourth wave of Covid triggers restriction demands across EuropeWHO warns Europe in danger of losing another 500,000 lives to virus by FebruaryMon Nov 08 2021 - 18:53
German investigators probe riddle of the spy who fell from a windowIt remains unclear whether the death is linked to 2019 Tiergarten attackSun Nov 07 2021 - 17:39
Germany’s vaccine dodgers make fourth Covid wave the trickiestDespite just having its highest daily infection rate, an ‘I’m all right, Jack’ mindset prevailsSat Nov 06 2021 - 05:01
Germany celebrates Holocaust survivor’s 100th birthday‘For 100 I’m feeling rather good, not like 100 at all,’ says Margot FriedlanderThu Nov 04 2021 - 20:00
What to expect from Germany’s would-be next finance ministerChristian Lindner promises a swift return to pre-pandemic era of balanced budgetsThu Nov 04 2021 - 17:07
Germany debates tighter Covid restrictions for the unvaccinated‘Currently we are experiencing mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated – and it is massive’Wed Nov 03 2021 - 19:22
ECJ president warns EU cannot survive solo runs by member states on rule of lawProf Koen Lenaerts makes comments a week after court ruling on fine for PolandTue Nov 02 2021 - 19:05
Germany’s CDU to let members pick new leader for first time in attempt to stop rotElection disaster prompts change in policy, as defeated candidates line up for second shotTue Nov 02 2021 - 01:00
Colm Tóibín sells Thomas Mann back to the Germans. Not everyone’s buyingOn a German tour, the Enniscorthy man defends his fictionalisation of a literary greatSat Oct 30 2021 - 06:00
Germany and Switzerland struggle with vaccination driveAs Covid case incidence rises, Berlin and Bern grapple with those refusing to get jabFri Oct 29 2021 - 19:30
Poland accuses EU of blackmail over €1m daily fineEuropean Court of Justice imposes penalty in escalating rift over Polish judicial reformsWed Oct 27 2021 - 18:56
Derek Scally: Will post-Merkel Germany shift from drift to drive?Berlin’s wish for continuity set to collide in Bundestag with calls for changeWed Oct 27 2021 - 03:00
New German Bundestag meets for first time with Merkel as observerTalks under way for new coalition government led by centre-left Social Democratic PartyTue Oct 26 2021 - 18:22
Merkel departs Brussels with warning on migration ‘vulnerability’Outgoing chancellor blames Belarusian dictator for funnelling migrants into EU statesFri Oct 22 2021 - 19:30
Writing was on the wall for Bundesbank president and ECB hawk Jens WeidmannBank chief saw himself as out of step with likely new German governmentThu Oct 21 2021 - 18:53
Editor of German tabloid Bild resigns amid growing sex scandalReichelt alleged to have exploited female staff under mantra ‘screw, promote, drop’Tue Oct 19 2021 - 18:17
Sebastian Kurz suffers fall from grace in Austria amid graft inquiryCase against former chancellor includes unflattering texts never meant for public’s eyesFri Oct 15 2021 - 19:00
Danish man to appear in court over bow-and-arrow attackAttack in Norwegian town of Kongsberg leaves five dead and three injuredThu Oct 14 2021 - 10:13
‘Implosion’: CDU plays blame game after German election disasterCentre-right party begins search for third leader in three yearsWed Oct 13 2021 - 19:00
And the Beethoven goes on: Bonn premieres ‘new’ 10th symphonyAI and a team of musicologists have breathed life into surviving sketches 200 years laterFri Oct 08 2021 - 16:55
Poland risks EU’s foundations in bid to ‘legalise authoritarian takeover’EU experts alarmed at what they see as a deliberate attack on the union’s legal orderFri Oct 08 2021 - 16:08
Polish court rules some EU laws and articles incompatible with country’s constitutionConstitutional court finds that the Court of Justice of the European Union is not Poland’s supreme legal authorityThu Oct 07 2021 - 19:47
SPD opens exploratory talks with coalition hopefulsParty courts Greens and FDP to oust centre-right CDU from power after 16 yearsThu Oct 07 2021 - 19:40
Former Nazi guard (100) accused of being a ‘small cog in the machinery of death’Hearing moved to prison sports hall in Brandenburg to accommodate defendantThu Oct 07 2021 - 13:24
Former Nazi camp guard (100) to stand trial for murderMan accused of assisting in killing of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen campWed Oct 06 2021 - 20:09
Ex-Nazi camp guard trial signals shift from German numbnessBelated justice as laxness in prosecuting ordinary Germans for Nazi-era crimes fadesWed Oct 06 2021 - 20:07
EU court questions legality of Polish judicial reformsLatest move is response to Polish judge being moved to new court division against his willWed Oct 06 2021 - 17:56
Germany marks 60 years since Turkish ‘guest workers’ came during labour shortageTwo children of Turkish migrants to Germany developed Pfizer Covid vaccineTue Oct 05 2021 - 20:45
Red letter day looms for Merkel as lengthy coalition talks loomNo one is expecting a government when MPs meet for their first sitting later this monthMon Oct 04 2021 - 18:04
Merkel urges greater respect for sacrifices of eastern GermansChancellor calls for unified country to ‘learn anew together’ and face challenges aheadSun Oct 03 2021 - 19:33
Scholz optimistic ahead of Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition talksSPD leader confident a deal with the Greens and FDP will see him become the next chancellorSun Oct 03 2021 - 17:56
How the SPD won Germany’s federal election raceScholz plan to take chancellery for first time in two decades was four years in the makingFri Oct 01 2021 - 18:00
Fugitive (96) arrested in Hamburg to face Nazi war crimes trialFormer concentration camp secretary faces 11,000 counts of complicity to murderThu Sept 30 2021 - 18:36
Germany’s SPD lines up coalition talks as CDU tensions growCDU leader Armin Laschet plays for time as furious party members question leadershipWed Sept 29 2021 - 19:00
German Covid expert warns that flagging vaccine take-up risks autumn waveCountry’s vaccination rate has plateaued at 64%, as rate of infections creeps upWed Sept 29 2021 - 16:16
