Germany

Afghan national (24) arrested after car ploughed into demonstrators gathered in city centre

Suspect (24) is detained after incident at a trade union demonstration in the city

Berlin’s culture minister says remarks by chancellor were ‘humiliating’

Far-right parties are pushing a new approach which casts Germans as the main victims of the second World War

US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould

Ahead of the February 23rd federal election, the party is on 4 per cent in all polls – one point short of the 5 per cent hurdle to enter the Bundestag

Several reasons for the weak performance of Europe and the US’s better-than-expected one

Chancellor fails to make up ground two weeks ahead of election day

Declan and Patsy Ryan recall receiving the restaurant industry’s highest accolade in 1974 for their Arbutus Lodge

The Dubliner is thrilling critics at his new musical home in Cologne but he still finds time to worry about Ireland’s cultural capital

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily basis

Sahra Wagenknecht’s populist BSW alliance falters after its anti-migration programme initially chimed with voters

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Analysis: Most EU members want to co-operate on defence, but have different ideas about what co-operation means

Result was a shock for CDU leader Friedrich Merz

Opposition accepts AfD support for hot-button migration proposal

Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz blames chancellor for ‘law and order’ crisis

‘Last milestone anniversary’ will see political leaders, including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, listening to survivors’ voices rather than making speeches

As the world remembers the Holocaust, some Germans see a period ahead that echoes the widespread amnesia in the postwar period

Television: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Monday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp

As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back

Joe Veselsky (106) made his mark on Ireland after his parents and brother died in Auschwitz

Friedrich Merz promises a swift crackdown on immigration if elected as chancellor next month following a fatal attack that left two dead in Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg

Difficulties in the continent’s largest economy see as overriding theme of forthcoming election

Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue said he was ‘dismayed’ at the news

For long-time Berlin watchers, the most likely electoral outcome is a return to the Merkel era with another CDU-SPD grand coalition

Friedrich was the go-to for showing figures from behind – mainly, it transpires, because he wasn’t very good at faces

Billionaire made comments in live-streamed conversation with Alternative for Germany’s co-leader Alice Weidel on X

Leaked security plan shows original emergency entrance used by driver was to be 4m wide and blocked at all times - but in reality it was 6m wide

CDU leader and other politicians criticise media group Axel Springer over publication of opinion piece by US billionaire in Welt am Sonntag

German car giants, threatened by Chinese rival, employ 7% of total workforce and contribute about 5% of the annual tax take

Frank-Walter Steinmeier warns of external influence but calls for a campaign marked by ‘respect and decency’

Former Financial Times journalist explains failures and fallacies that caused his country to lose its way

Officers unable to locate eventual suspect at workplace, a hospital near Magdeburg, and failed to follow up, according to media reports

Police holding a ‘completely atypical’ suspect after Friday’s tragedy that killed five people and left many others in critical condition

Nine-year-old boy and four women were killed by man who drove car into a market in Magdeburg on Friday

As some waited for news of injured loved-ones, locals at the crash scene struggled to keep up with twists and turns of the story

Police identify driver in car-ramming incident that killed five and injured 200 as a Saudi doctor who has lived in Germany since 2006

Eyewitnesses say vehicle aimed directly at area of market popular with families in city of Magdeburg with driver arrested at scene