Germany

World View: Historians unconvinced by deliberate forgetfulness in France and Italy, while German leader sounds alarm

Thirty-one-year-old had just arrived from London and was waiting for train to Austria at time of attack

Europe has stumbled into a new growth paradigm with a reliance on the permanent threat of war

An election in Saxony-Anhalt has become a defining test of whether Germany’s mainstream can still hold the line

Friedrich Merz and five other leaders demand spending cuts of ‘several hundred billion euros in a balanced manner’

German car giant plans swingeing cuts across its business amid Chinese competition

Shops, restaurants and barbers close in Magdeburg as campaigners warn far-right AfD surge is fuelling fear and division

Chancellor Friedrich Merz warns of increasingly ‘unscrupulous’ hybrid attacks

Excess mortality in Germany, France and Spain alone has already exceeded 25,000, according to provisional figure

Allianz Arena mistakenly etched on to the event’s participation medal instead of a local landmark

Right-wing candidate could be on course for one of the greatest political upsets in postwar German history

Four years into the Ukraine war, Berlin is still deciding what to do about the Russland-Haus

Its water levels have sunk so low that dozens of wrecked Nazi warships have been exposed. It’s hard not to see this as an extreme metaphor

Residents in Belgium’s Liège province told to evacuate as country’s largest-ever fire burns through nature reserve

Thumbing a ride can lead to extraordinary experiences

Berlin politicians fear Germany’s first AfD-led state could hobble federal co-operation

Recent sales figures in China suggest the company is on shaky ground

People waved to each other on either side of a new art installation, unwittingly echoing desperate gestures of 1961

From pretzels and beer to Michelin-stars and fine Riesling, Germany’s food scene offers something for every taste

Push for change comes due to ‘acute danger’ of attack from belligerent foreign powers

Some say Matthias Lilienthal’s ‘production’ is just what the city needs in troubled times, others pour cold water on the idea

As treasure-hunters prowl extended river banks with metal-detectors, shipping companies warn of surging prices

German car maker plans to lay off 100,000 employees, a sixth of its global workforce

Independent retailers are receiving vast orders for obscure titles, fuelling suspicions that AI companies are quietly building the next generation of chatbots

A defective detonator and an alert bus driver prevented disaster, but the drone-bomb incident has exposed weaknesses in airport security and national preparedness

Germany investigating whether foreign state involved as minister says ‘ripped’ detonator stopped device going off

Germany, France and Britain have been increasingly active as a formation in the search for a diplomatic resolution of the war

I believe that countries can only be very good at some things, and Dutch supermarkets prove this to be true

Nato ‘aware’ of drone sighting near Ukrainian plane at German airport after ‘security incident’

As rents continue to climb, housing has emerged as the defining battleground of Berlin’s September state election

More than 50,000 people crossed into the Spanish territory from Morocco on Thursday and Friday

As politicians clash over the response to the deadly attack, one man who escaped Islamist radicalisation is urging a more honest debate on extremism

Row over Jewish guest speaker at Bayreuth’s 150th anniversary reopens questions about Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism and festival’s ties to Adolf Hitler

Alumina from Aughinish is a strategically important input – directly or indirectly – into Russia’s war machine, and potentially into Israel’s genocide in Palestine

Consider the conditions of Daniel Tatlow-Devally’s detention in Germany

Most foreigners we meet here, including shopkeepers, waiters and hoteliers, are happy to address us in English

From forest walks to tearful group sessions, a new community is offering young men an alternative to toxic online influencers

German leader placed subtle pressure on Taoiseach to assist his goal of slashing bloc’s spending by several hundred billion euro

On sanctions for Israel, Friedrich Merz says ‘we don’t want to, we won’t do it, we cannot do it’

As details emerge of the perpetrator’s failed attempts to join Islamic State, scrutiny is mounting on courts, police and deradicalisation efforts