Germany offers €220m in supports to print media but some are scepticalGrant aimed at helping with digital transitionFri Aug 14 2020 - 18:13
Ban on beer kiosks draws ire as Berlin dances on edge of volcanoCapital divided into three camps with parties recalling post-wall days despite Covid-19 riseThu Aug 13 2020 - 20:00
Bavarian test lapse in 900 positive Covid-19 casesMore than 900 Germans who tested positive after holiday abroad have yet to be informed of their infection two weeks onThu Aug 13 2020 - 17:04
Coronavirus: How Germany dealt with a meat plant outbreakGerman research says meat plant conditions make them ideal ground for super-spreader eventsThu Aug 13 2020 - 02:13
German SPD nominates Scholz as chancellor hopeful in bid to arrest slideParty in throes of an identity crisis looks beyond its leader for first time since 1949Mon Aug 10 2020 - 18:00
Covid-19: Germany faces its greatest health experiment as millions return to schoolsStaggered German back-to-school push is welcomed by some and criticised by othersSun Aug 09 2020 - 18:55
Germany begins testing holidaymakers returning from high-risk regionsCovid-19 clusters in German states push daily new infection rate over 1,000 for first time since early MayFri Aug 07 2020 - 17:01
‘Other Voices’ team hosting virtual German-Irish concertFriday’s event will see renewed collaboration between Lisa Hannigan and European instrumental collective stargazeFri Aug 07 2020 - 13:27
Neo-Nazi admits fatal shooting of German regional politician‘It was cowardly, wrong and terrible,’ Stephan Ernst said in his second confessionWed Aug 05 2020 - 17:40
Nearly half of Germans back US troop withdrawal, poll showsFive of the six parliamentary parties in the Bundestag oppose the reduction of 11,900 US troopsTue Aug 04 2020 - 17:43
Citizens in Brexit Britain clamour for German passports, study showsOutward migration also rises significantly, with emigrants prepared to take more risksTue Aug 04 2020 - 16:21
AfD senior figure warns of looming party splitHeated dispute erupts over Andreas Kalbitz expulsion for membership non-disclosureMon Aug 03 2020 - 19:19
Phased reopening in German schools as classes judged unlikely Covid-19 hotspotsIf a pupil tests positive, only their age cohort will be quarantined – not the entire schoolMon Aug 03 2020 - 18:16
Anti-Covid protest draws ragbag of conspiracy theorists to Berlin‘We are the second wave,’ proclaimed one sign at the march. It was hard to disagreeSun Aug 02 2020 - 17:03
New cultural officer seeks to boost Ireland’s image in GermanyBerlin-based Candice Gordon is the first of seven cultural representatives to be appointed globallySat Aug 01 2020 - 12:35
Berlin’s S&M workers win stinging court victory over city officialsHealth risk from reopening BDSM studios ‘no different’ to tattoo parlours or hairdressersFri Jul 31 2020 - 17:55
Covid criticism builds as centennial Salzburg Festival opensOrganisers decide to press ahead with curtailed festival amid stringent health measuresFri Jul 31 2020 - 16:15
German studies indicate long-term Covid-19 health issuesPatients tested around 10 weeks after recovery had lingering heart problemsThu Jul 30 2020 - 18:43
Madeleine McCann case: German police to continue Hanover site searchProsecutor’s office confirms investigators began excavating garden allotment on MondayTue Jul 28 2020 - 18:05
Coronavirus: Germany’s leading disease official ‘very worried’ as cases riseRobert Koch Institute president says lack of vigilance by public could cause second waveTue Jul 28 2020 - 13:40
Coronavirus: Germany to test returning holidaymakers as cases riseThose returning from high-risk countries face tests amid fears of second wave of infectionsMon Jul 27 2020 - 17:21
Covid-19 scrambles German CDU leadership raceMerkel’s steady pandemic path has had disproportionately positive effect on CDUSun Jul 26 2020 - 18:45
Android glitch hobbles German Covid-19 AppSoftware issue meant some users were not warned of contact with a virus carrierFri Jul 24 2020 - 16:49
German court convicts man (97) for Nazi crimes as a teenMan who served at camp aged 17 gets suspended sentence for complicity to murderThu Jul 23 2020 - 11:55
Merkel’s role in €750m EU recovery fund attracts criticism in GermanyGerman leader has yet to explain properly why she changed her attitude on EU-issued debt last MarchWed Jul 22 2020 - 17:17
Neo-Nazi goes on trial for murder following 2019 German synagogue attackStephan Balliet attempted to shoot, bomb his way into building during Yom Kippur serviceTue Jul 21 2020 - 20:08
Germans take pandemic holiday as uncertain autumn loomsBerlin Letter: Rude awakening may await country coping well with Covid-19 so farTue Jul 21 2020 - 20:00
German report dismisses ‘restrictive’ arms exports claimGreenpeace study finds German-made weapons are fuelling conflict around the worldMon Jul 20 2020 - 17:59
Polish presidential election turns into two-horse raceCritics fear a Duda re-election will mark the end of liberal democracy, 30 years after end of communist ruleFri Jun 26 2020 - 20:00
Locals at Austrian ski resort blamed for Covid-19 spread show high rate of antibodies42% of those in Ischgl found to have antibodies, with vast majority asymptomaticThu Jun 25 2020 - 16:55
Wirecard collapses owing €3.5 billionShares in Wirecard down 90% in a week after German company files for insolvencyThu Jun 25 2020 - 10:19
German court injunction could limit Facebook’s data collectionFacebook defends data policy and insists nothing will change for its German usersWed Jun 24 2020 - 18:41
Holiday standoff looms over German Covid-19 hotspotFederal states unwilling to host holidaymakers from stricken WestphaliaWed Jun 24 2020 - 17:54
Former Wirecard chief Markus Braun arrestedEx-head of scandal-hit German fintech company released from custody on €5m bailTue Jun 23 2020 - 18:27
German court orders Facebook to stop collecting user dataOrder against social media giant’s Dublin operation says it abuses market dominationTue Jun 23 2020 - 18:23
Coronavirus: Germany imposes local lockdown after meat plant outbreakGütersloh region, with 370,000 people, faces new measures days before official holidaysTue Jun 23 2020 - 15:18
Stuttgart riot prompts pushback against attacks on policeGermany facing law and order ‘alarm signal’ following street battles, says ministerMon Jun 22 2020 - 19:28
Covid-19 outbreak prompts lockdown calls in Germany's most populous stateSome 7,000 quarantined around meat processing plant at centre of new outbreakMon Jun 22 2020 - 18:38
Austrian artist produces fantasy European rail map to counter Covid-19 bluesMetropa map shows Ireland connected to Istanbul in idealised supermetro networkSun Jun 21 2020 - 15:00
Bundesbank president to break taboo and brief German parliament on ECBMove responds to court ruling on ECB bond-buyingFri Jun 19 2020 - 16:26
Goodbye to Rome? Former pope Benedict visits ailing brother in BavariaJoseph Ratzinger (93) visiting bedridden older brother, with no return trip scheduledFri Jun 19 2020 - 15:44
Angela Merkel strikes optimistic note ahead of EU presidency stintGerman leader hopeful multibillion Covid-19 crisis fund can be agreed by member statesThu Jun 18 2020 - 18:30
Germany faces into bitter debate on police racismPeople of colour have come forward with stories of random security checks and racial profilingWed Jun 17 2020 - 18:00
Irish poet’s lockdown verse debuts as choral work in BerlinLive online performance of ‘Isolation’ by Gerard Smyth to take place on Wednesday eveningWed Jun 17 2020 - 14:00
Two men go on trial for politician’s murder in GermanyMurder of Walter Lübcke in 2019 shocked country amid growing violence against politiciansTue Jun 16 2020 - 17:01
Coronavirus: Traffic jams and a run on cigarettes as many EU borders openGermany opens its doors as Spain brings forward reopening by 10 days to June 21stMon Jun 15 2020 - 17:24
German author defends dystopian ‘health dictatorship’ novel with Covid-19 parallelsA protest movement sees ‘Corpus Delicti’ as a foretaste of what is to come in a second waveMon Jun 15 2020 - 17:00
Polish president revives attacks on LGBT community in re-election campaignAndrzej Duda warns Poles to be vigilant against ‘foreign’ attempts to co-opt nation’s identityFri Jun 12 2020 - 20:00
Swedish prosecutor names suspected killer of prime minister Olof PalmeStig Engstrom – who is dead – carried out 1986 assassination, investigators concludeWed Jun 10 2020 - 10:27
Sweden to present findings on killing of prime minister Olof PalmeCharismatic leader was shot dead in 1986 in incident that became nation’s ‘open wound’Tue Jun 09 2020 - 21:00
