German liberals stage comeback in the race for election bronzeImage-obsessed FDP hopes to win back enough support to be coalition kingmakerThu Sept 14 2017 - 02:00
Ireland’s days of hiding behind Britain in Europe are overWe will eventually have to show our hand when the push for EU reforms gathers paceWed Sept 13 2017 - 01:27
East German town’s blossoming landscapes mask major threatsQuedlinburg’s restoration has brought tourists and business, but many challenges remainTue Sept 12 2017 - 01:00
Anti-Merkel sentiment grows in east Germany before election‘Disappointed love’ and immigration fears are causing unrest in chancellor’s heartlandMon Sept 11 2017 - 07:00
How a small German town mastered the refugee crisisLower Saxon city embraces asylum seekers as it counters low birth rate and brain drainSat Sept 09 2017 - 01:00
Hacking and fake news cast shadows over German electionGermany faces up to the threat of targeted cyberattacks ahead of September’s federal voteFri Sept 08 2017 - 01:00
Berlin tech fair IFA shows its age as it reaches to the futureWindows Mixed Reality and high-tech oven among innovations at veteran trade showThu Sept 07 2017 - 06:45
Race for bronze heats up in Germany election campaignIn the Bundestag, opposition politicians released four years of frustration with MerkelTue Sept 05 2017 - 18:59
Food banks: the dirty secret of the Merkel era‘You hear that our state coffers are well-filled but it’s depressing how empty my fridge is’Tue Sept 05 2017 - 01:00
Angela Merkel seeks motorists’ backing with €1bn ‘mobility fund’Chancellor aims to reassure voters over looming diesel bans in German citiesMon Sept 04 2017 - 21:16
Merkel dominates TV debate as Schulz fails to turn tideChancellor defends record on Turkey and migration as Germany prepares for electionSun Sept 03 2017 - 22:30
Angela Merkel: the world’s most powerful womanAs German election nears, shadows are falling over the chancellor’s looming victorySat Sept 02 2017 - 06:00
Televised debate pushes German election into high gearThe debate is challenger Martin Schulz’s last, best chance to turn the election aroundSat Sept 02 2017 - 02:00
Berlin private medical school accused of allowing illegal human dissectionsHealth officials also allege that Prometheus Academy’s head isn’t a real doctorFri Sept 01 2017 - 19:14
Samsung makes splash with new watch and Speedo appIFA tech fair showcases latest innovations in phones, watches, ovens, vacuums and TVsThu Aug 31 2017 - 19:46
Borussia Dortmund bus was bombed 'to cash in on shares'The 28-year-old suspect had bought shares in the club and hoped to cash in for €4millionWed Aug 30 2017 - 09:43
EU and Turkey have little hope of deepening ties, Merkel saysPoland’s court reforms, Russian sanctions, and refugee crisis discussed at wide-ranging press conferenceTue Aug 29 2017 - 13:30
Germany is ‘banana republic’ of European aviation, Ryanair saysAirline has complained to competition authorities over Air Berlin ‘stitch-up’Tue Aug 29 2017 - 11:17
High-flying Merkel under fire over helicopter flight fee discountGerman chancellor accused by rival over use of helicopter at ‘knockdown price’Mon Aug 28 2017 - 17:58
Germany’s refugee debate is likely to benefit right-wing partyAlternative für Deutschland adapts: populist xenophobia in east, conservatism in westMon Aug 28 2017 - 16:41
Angela Merkel takes a tougher refugee line ahead of electionGerman chancellor to seek extension of border checks in effort to win back votersSun Aug 27 2017 - 20:18
St Oliver Plunkett: Head of Irish church thanks Germans for key roleArchbishop Eamon Martin thanks Benedictine monks who guarded Irish saint’s bodySat Aug 26 2017 - 18:27
Germany plans ban on diesel cars in cities from early 2018Software updates alone will not be enough to avoid ban, warns environment ministerFri Aug 25 2017 - 05:30
Trump deserves respect for winning US presidency, says MerkelNationalist thinking the wrong approach in a globalised world, chancellor arguesThu Aug 24 2017 - 19:46
Hilter’s Tempelhof airport to become Berlin tourist attractionPlans have been unveiled to build a 1.2km public terrace atop the Nazi structureThu Aug 24 2017 - 19:35
Race to carve up Air Berlin has taken off in earnestCantillon: O’Leary says if Lufthansa swallows up Air Berlin it will create ‘national monster’Thu Aug 24 2017 - 06:00
‘Merkel doesn’t polarise’: poll points to fourth term for chancellorHowever, a record one in two voters remains undecided and make-up of coalition unclearWed Aug 23 2017 - 17:51
German-Turkish standoff flares up over arrest of writerTurkey trying to extradite German-based Turkish writer critical of Erdogan’s regimeMon Aug 21 2017 - 19:59
Frankfurt and Dublin will be winners on Brexit jobs, says Bundesbank memberAndreas Dombret says American banks are concentrating relocations on the two citiesMon Aug 21 2017 - 06:15
German president’s villa remains haunted by its pastFrank-Walter Steinmeier is under pressure to commemorate building’s Jewish ex-ownerMon Aug 21 2017 - 01:00
Austrian Social Democrats fire election adviser over fraud claimsChancellor Christian Kern said party had severed ties to Tal SilbersteinThu Aug 17 2017 - 20:24
Gerhard Schröder’s Russian oil links leave a bad tasteFormer German chancellor and friend of Putin nominated for board of RosneftThu Aug 17 2017 - 18:41
Germans dismiss Ryanair claim over Air Berlin as ‘absurd’Irish airline claims state loan to struggling firm is part of ‘conspiracy’ to distort marketWed Aug 16 2017 - 21:56
Merkel dispels world war fears with smiley emojisGerman chancellor makes her YouTube premiere pitching to young votersWed Aug 16 2017 - 16:35
Capital expenditure to be clear focus of budget, says DonohoeMinister outlines Republic’s Brexit concerns in talks with German counterpart SchäubleTue Aug 15 2017 - 21:35
ECB bond-buying activities referred to Europe’s highest courtEuropean Court of Justice to rule on whether asset purchase programme broke bank’s banTue Aug 15 2017 - 20:47
Merkel heirs apparent look to three-way coalitionChancellor warned against third coalition with Social Democrats in federal electionsTue Aug 15 2017 - 18:36
Schulz embraces parish pump politics in German campaignSPD challenger to Angela Merkel employs hands-on personal approach to electionTue Aug 15 2017 - 01:00
Germany remembers Berlin Wall and those who died trying to fleeCulture minister says remembering victims of wall part of state’s commemorative cultureSun Aug 13 2017 - 18:39
Angela Merkel launches scathing attack on German car giantsGerman chancellor says large sections of the auto industry have gambled away ‘huge amount of trust’Sun Aug 13 2017 - 16:36
Exhuming Roger Casement by TV dramaIn Germany, one man is campaigning to screen a forgotten TV play about the Irish revolutionarySat Aug 12 2017 - 06:00
Merkel's CDU still in denial about East German collaborationChancellor shows little interest in examining the history of her party’s East German wingFri Aug 11 2017 - 19:26
Derek Scally: German media hypocrisy motors onPress’s incestuous relationship with politicians worse than car industry’sFri Aug 11 2017 - 16:30
Düsseldorf dissipates tensions with Irish TravellersHead of Irish Business Network mediates with Traveller gathering in German cityThu Aug 10 2017 - 18:50
Angela Merkel returns to campaign on steady poll numbersGerman attitudes to car industry scandals may be taking a toll on political supportThu Aug 10 2017 - 18:00
UCD historian attacks German war revisionismAcademic accuses leading German historian of flirting with neo-Nazi thinkingTue Aug 08 2017 - 20:45
Satirist tries to shame Twitter into action over hate speechShahak Shapira spray-paints pavement outside social media firm’s German HQTue Aug 08 2017 - 19:13
Ryanair clash with Berlin mayor over airportAirline backs campaign to keep Tegel airport operating even after its replacement opensMon Aug 07 2017 - 17:06
Germany’s ‘diesel summit’ fails to quell growing anger over emissionsCritics say ‘voluntary’ deal which includes a diesel scrappage scheme does not go far enoughThu Aug 03 2017 - 18:02
VW, Daimler and BMW agree to EU-wide software updateGerman giants to update millions of diesel cars to reduce dangerous emissionsWed Aug 02 2017 - 20:15
