Scholz under pressure after blocking Taurus cruise missile delivery to UkraineGerman chancellor has claimed it would only be possible for German soldiers to programme Taurus targets on-site in UkraineTue Feb 27 2024 - 18:58
After decades of pacifist politics, Germany embraces new ‘war-ready’ realityTwo years on from chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ‘watershed’ speech, the country’s policy on defence has pivoted dramaticallyMon Feb 26 2024 - 05:00
German MPs vote to legalise cannabis for personal useHealth minister said new legislation would enable the market to be reclaimed from drug dealersFri Feb 23 2024 - 07:16
Germany faces into recession with little sign of an immediate turnaroundMain political parties can’t agree steps to reinvigorate economyFri Feb 23 2024 - 06:00
Poland moves to guarantee Ukraine arms deliveries‘Different organisational regime’ on border crossings will provide ‘100% guarantee’ aid will reach Ukraine without delays, says Polish prime ministerThu Feb 22 2024 - 17:58
Cillian Murphy: ‘Magdalene laundries were a collective trauma for people of a certain age’After decades of denial and obfuscation, campaigners agree progress on Magdalene laundry is happening as new Cillian Murphy film absorbs audiencesSun Feb 18 2024 - 06:00
Kamala Harris warns US voters of dangers of embracing anti-democratic dictatorshipUN secretary general Antonio Guterres says humanitarian response for civilians in Gaza ‘now on life support’Fri Feb 16 2024 - 17:38
Rape trial involving Madeleine McCann suspect adjourned over alleged ‘assassination’ postsAlleged victims of Christian Brückner include Dublin womanFri Feb 16 2024 - 10:31
‘We had a golden decade before the pandemic where everything seemed financeable thanks to low interest rates’German finance minister Christina Lindner on the challenges facing Germany from the Ukraine war, to inflation, and low growth and productivityFri Feb 16 2024 - 05:30
Cillian Murphy’s Magdalene laundries film grips audience at Berlin festivalSmall Things Like These, based on Claire Keegan’s novella, is dedicated ‘to more than 10,000 young women sent to Magdalene institutions for penance and rehabilitation’Thu Feb 15 2024 - 19:17
Tusk calls on EU to increase military capabilities in response to Russia threatPolish prime minister says: There is no reason that the European Union cannot become a military power like Russia’Mon Feb 12 2024 - 20:48
Trading deal for North must not endanger EU’s single market - German finance ministerChristian Lindner is in Dublin for talks with his Irish counterparts on a range of issuesMon Feb 12 2024 - 18:11
‘We are losing free places to talk without judgment, and to listen with kindness’Totalitarian creep attracts crowds in Berlin museumFri Feb 09 2024 - 19:47
Berlin zoo-goers mourn passing of Ingo the flamingoZoo’s most senior resident, and possibly the oldest flamingo in the world, dies aged 75Fri Feb 09 2024 - 19:42
Swedish inquiry into Nord Stream explosions ends inconclusivelyDamage to gas pipelines has prompted a series of Europe-wide hunts for perpetrators and accomplicesWed Feb 07 2024 - 11:15
Olaf Scholz’s shaky coalition under siege as gap between politics and reality widensGerman chancellor's leadership torn between inner voices of Pollyanna and Cassandra as blind optimism gives way to growing pessimismSat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
Brigidiplomacy: From Berlin to Beijing, the Irish saint is having a resurgenceIn her name, multiple creative Irish women turned cultural missionaries have fanned out to 50 global locationsThu Feb 01 2024 - 00:00
Bitter split on left on show in seat of German governmentIcy welcome from former colleagues for new party in BundestagTue Jan 30 2024 - 22:32
Berlin arts squat completes journey from cultural collective to tourist trapRevamped Tacheles is a textbook example of city’s nakedly capitalist directionTue Jan 30 2024 - 05:05
Berlin’s KaDeWe department store files for insolvencyStore is part owned by Austria’s Signa Group, which is also co-owner of Brown Thomas and Arnotts in IrelandMon Jan 29 2024 - 19:28
German-based allies of Turkish president launch new partyDemocratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening offers Erdogan ‘further leverage for political influence in Germany’Sun Jan 28 2024 - 18:09
Assisted dying in Germany: Ralf Bladt was 56 years old, loved his road haulier job and big carsGermany’s 2020 assisted dying constitutional court ruling remains as obscure as it is far-reachingSun Jan 28 2024 - 06:00
Security an increasing focus for Baltic region as Sweden moves step closer to Nato membershipWeeks after Vladimir Putin threatened ‘problems for Finland’, the Russian leader is very present in this weekend’s Finish presidential electionFri Jan 26 2024 - 20:24
German Protestant churches riddled with sexual abuse and cover-ups, report findsForum Study suggests many church features prized by German Protestants facilitated rather than prevented sexualised violence and continue to hinder full disclosureFri Jan 26 2024 - 04:46
Parliamentary battle looms in Warsaw over pardoned Polish politicians The two ex-politicians are demanding the return of their seats in the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliamentWed Jan 24 2024 - 19:59
Macron calls for strong Franco-German alliance at Schäuble memorial‘Germany has lost a statesman, Europe a supporting pillar and France a friend,’ says French president in glowing tributeMon Jan 22 2024 - 19:33
‘It’s an easy place to live’: Meet the growing band of Irish artists at the top of their game in BerlinMany Irish artists have moved to Germany. A new culture programme, Zeitgeist Irland 24, aims to promote their work over the next yearSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Donald Tusk’s media reforms rejected by constitutional court as Poland’s divisions deepenNew government headed by Tusk says ruling is illegitimate as one of the judges was illegally appointed by previous Law and Justice (PiS) partyFri Jan 19 2024 - 18:26
Germany seeing Israel-Gaza conflict through ‘prism’ of Holocaust, Tánaiste saysMicheál Martin calls on Israel to focus on ending conflict quickly and says Hamas must ‘lay down their arms’Thu Jan 18 2024 - 21:29
Moving fast to break things: Tusk conducts a novel experiment in EuropePolish prime minister is moving to depoliticise public media, courts and public prosecutor structures. He has a powerful adversary in president Andrzej DudaWed Jan 17 2024 - 13:03
Olaf Scholz’s annus horribilus builds macabre momentumDeep ideological differences on climate politics and economics have left German’s chancellor as a traffic officer managing too many coalition traffic jamsSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
EU enlargement will only succeed if national veto is dropped, says German ministerEurope minister Anna Luhrmann says reforms are needed for Ukraine and Moldova to successfully join blockFri Jan 12 2024 - 13:00
A tale of two pardons: Poland’s president Duda and PM Donald Tusk in battle of wills over reforms Convicted PiS politicians arrested at presidential palace and on hunger strike in the latest twist in country’s politicsThu Jan 11 2024 - 20:04
Former Polish minister starts hunger strike in prison after arrest in presidential palace President Andrzej Duda accuses Tusk administration of creating ‘political prisoners’ following arrest of two PiS politiciansWed Jan 10 2024 - 10:59
Germany recalibrates backing for Israel as Palestinian death toll spiralsForeign minister Annalena Baerbock reframes October 7th attack by Hamas as double-edged tragedy and the ‘start of a nightmare without end for the people in Israel and Gaza’Tue Jan 09 2024 - 17:47
‘It has been a wonderful, deepening time’: Alice Lyons on being the first recipient of the Heaney-Milosz ResidencySeamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz were firm friends and Nobel laureates. A writer’s residency has been established in Kraków in their memoryTue Jan 09 2024 - 05:15
Farmers protest as anger spreads at austerity born of Germany’s fiscal fetish Berlin Letter: Just over a decade ago Germany made painful austerity demands of Ireland and other crisis-hit euro neighbours. Now the decision to cut costs at home rather than borrow for investment is proving highly contentiousTue Jan 09 2024 - 05:00
Wolfgang Schäuble’s achievements and ambivalent fiscal legacy remembered Former finance minister has died aged 81, while his austerity politics dominates headlines and political agendaFri Jan 05 2024 - 17:39
Olaf Scholz walking a fine line as Germany’s politics fragment German chancellor likes to invoke Liverpool club anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone, but his coalition is fast losing supportersThu Jan 04 2024 - 16:46
After eight years of culture wars in Poland, 2024 has begun with more of the sameDonald Tusk hailed his October election victory as a 'civic awakening', and vowed 'not to stop' until he had repaired deep divisions in Polish societyTue Jan 02 2024 - 18:24
Edvard Munch’s artistic outlook: ‘There should be pictures of real people who breathed, who suffered, felt, loved’Berlin’s state gallery has pulled out all the stops for the city’s first Munch exhibition in 30 yearsTue Jan 02 2024 - 05:00
A snapshot of house prices in five cities around the world and how they compare to IrelandTight supply and a shortage of affordable housing are common themes despite recent cooling of prices in several marketsThu Dec 28 2023 - 06:01
Best of five: A glimpse at rental prices in cities around the worldFive Irish Times foreign correspondents looked at rental prices and issues in their city, to get a snapshot of whether the rental crisis in Dublin is also experienced in other parts of the worldWed Dec 27 2023 - 06:01
Tusk government moves to depoliticise Poland’s public institutionsSupervisory boards of TVP public television, Polish Radio and the Polish Press Agency fired to ‘restore the impartiality and credibility of public media’Wed Dec 20 2023 - 18:44
AfD gets first mayorship in eastern city of PirnaVictory comes just days after intelligence agency in the state of Saxony declared the local AfD to be an extremist organisationMon Dec 18 2023 - 19:57
Gaza Nazi comparisons heat up Berlin dinner-party talkMasha Gessen essay fuels debates about German sensitivities and Israeli policyMon Dec 18 2023 - 15:17
Donald Tusk’s administration faces new wave of Polish culture warsEven with the handover of power to a pro-EU coalition, patriotic-nationalist narratives promoted by the conservative Law and Justice party have taken rootFri Dec 15 2023 - 18:28
German coalition strikes deal to fill €17bn budget holeArrangement that will see cuts to green investment follows weeks of political upheavalWed Dec 13 2023 - 18:39
Donald Tusk promises to restore Poland to ‘its rightful place’ New prime minister signals warmer relationship with European Union and ‘full mobilisation’ for UkraineTue Dec 12 2023 - 16:41
Warsaw cinema screens real-life political drama as Tusk replaces MorawieckiLivestream of events in parliament delivers a happy ending for young crowdMon Dec 11 2023 - 21:42
