Danish man to appear in court over bow-and-arrow attackAttack in Norwegian town of Kongsberg leaves five dead and three injuredThu Oct 14 2021 - 10:13
‘Implosion’: CDU plays blame game after German election disasterCentre-right party begins search for third leader in three yearsWed Oct 13 2021 - 19:00
And the Beethoven goes on: Bonn premieres ‘new’ 10th symphonyAI and a team of musicologists have breathed life into surviving sketches 200 years laterFri Oct 8 2021 - 16:55
Poland risks EU’s foundations in bid to ‘legalise authoritarian takeover’EU experts alarmed at what they see as a deliberate attack on the union’s legal orderFri Oct 8 2021 - 16:08
Polish court rules some EU laws and articles incompatible with country’s constitutionConstitutional court finds that the Court of Justice of the European Union is not Poland’s supreme legal authorityThu Oct 7 2021 - 19:47
SPD opens exploratory talks with coalition hopefulsParty courts Greens and FDP to oust centre-right CDU from power after 16 yearsThu Oct 7 2021 - 19:40
Former Nazi guard (100) accused of being a ‘small cog in the machinery of death’Hearing moved to prison sports hall in Brandenburg to accommodate defendantThu Oct 7 2021 - 13:24
Former Nazi camp guard (100) to stand trial for murderMan accused of assisting in killing of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen campWed Oct 6 2021 - 20:09
Ex-Nazi camp guard trial signals shift from German numbnessBelated justice as laxness in prosecuting ordinary Germans for Nazi-era crimes fadesWed Oct 6 2021 - 20:07
EU court questions legality of Polish judicial reformsLatest move is response to Polish judge being moved to new court division against his willWed Oct 6 2021 - 17:56
Germany marks 60 years since Turkish ‘guest workers’ came during labour shortageTwo children of Turkish migrants to Germany developed Pfizer Covid vaccineTue Oct 5 2021 - 20:45
Red letter day looms for Merkel as lengthy coalition talks loomNo one is expecting a government when MPs meet for their first sitting later this monthMon Oct 4 2021 - 18:04
Merkel urges greater respect for sacrifices of eastern GermansChancellor calls for unified country to ‘learn anew together’ and face challenges aheadSun Oct 3 2021 - 19:33
Scholz optimistic ahead of Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition talksSPD leader confident a deal with the Greens and FDP will see him become the next chancellorSun Oct 3 2021 - 17:56
How the SPD won Germany’s federal election raceScholz plan to take chancellery for first time in two decades was four years in the makingFri Oct 1 2021 - 18:00
Fugitive (96) arrested in Hamburg to face Nazi war crimes trialFormer concentration camp secretary faces 11,000 counts of complicity to murderThu Sep 30 2021 - 18:36
Germany’s SPD lines up coalition talks as CDU tensions growCDU leader Armin Laschet plays for time as furious party members question leadershipWed Sep 29 2021 - 19:00
German Covid expert warns that flagging vaccine take-up risks autumn waveCountry’s vaccination rate has plateaued at 64%, as rate of infections creeps upWed Sep 29 2021 - 16:16
Germany’s rejuvenated SPD leads way in talks to form new coalitionOlaf Scholz best-placed to be chancellor, but CDU’s Armin Laschet is refusing to give inWed Sep 29 2021 - 01:00
Far-right AfD struggles to capitalise on extremist vote in German electionXenophobic party finished 10.3% in Sunday’s vote, losing four seats in BundestagTue Sep 28 2021 - 18:40
Berlin voters back campaign to divest landlords of up to 240,000 apartmentsInitiative orders city-state government to buy-out landlords with more than 3,000 unitsMon Sep 27 2021 - 17:03
Knives come out in Merkel’s party as Germans vote for changeAnalysis: Centre-left SPD wins election with snappy campaign and clear messagingMon Sep 27 2021 - 12:59
SPD leader Scholz calls for coalition talks after German election winAngela Merkel’s CDU suffers slump in support, leaving centre-rivals with ‘visible mandate’ to governMon Sep 27 2021 - 10:06
Germany’s CDU faces historic disaster as SPD appears to edge ahead in electionExit polls indicate Angela Merkel’s ruling party has had its worst-ever election resultSun Sep 26 2021 - 22:50
Germany tilts towards centre-left victory as SPD edges ahead in electionRuling CDU heads into post-Merkel era with fiasco as support slides eight pointsSun Sep 26 2021 - 22:21
Scholz leads SPD revival and puts party at the centre of coalition talksEarly projections suggest Mr Scholz has led Social Democrat party back to the topSun Sep 26 2021 - 20:53
Germany votes: The election that could change Europe's futureMore than 60 million Germans are called to vote on Sunday – Can climate anxiety convert to radical political change?Sat Sep 25 2021 - 06:00
German democracy enters a new chapter as Merkel departsEurope’s most populous – and powerful – country goes to the polls on SundaySat Sep 25 2021 - 05:00
Close-fought German election goes down to the wireCandidates deliver final effort to secure chancellery after Merkel’s departureFri Sep 24 2021 - 19:06
Germany’s main political parties almost level ahead of election – pollOutgoing chancellor Merkel’s CDU hoping for a record fifth term in governmentFri Sep 24 2021 - 18:31
Berliners face radical housing referendum in bid to slow overheated market‘The situation is still better than Dublin but that’s not saying a lot,’ says one Irish expatThu Sep 23 2021 - 20:00
CDU struggles to shake whiff of graft ahead of German election‘Party of law and order’ has had issues with graft, bribe-friendly MPs and lack of transparencyWed Sep 22 2021 - 20:00
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland by Crawford Gribben: Critical massPerhaps the greatest miracle of Irish Christianity is that it took root at all on this islandWed Sep 22 2021 - 06:00
Merkel joins Laschet for last-minute German election pushChancellor weighs in as polls show her CDU closing gap on the SPD before Sunday’s voteTue Sep 21 2021 - 19:35
Group of German millionaires seeking to be taxed at a higher rateA group led by Ralph Suikat sees the tax regime as morally bankruptMon Sep 20 2021 - 18:00
Schäuble blames CDU difficulties on outgoing MerkelParty trails in opinion polls as Armin Laschet struggles in campaign deemed fiascoSun Sep 19 2021 - 19:35
Olaf Scholz: The man in the driving seat to be Germany’s next chancellorSPD candidate has matched a centrist approach with a centre-left programmeFri Sep 17 2021 - 20:00
Germany’s federal election: The parties, polls, coalitions... and how it all worksSeptember 26th vote to determine who will succeed Angela Merkel in Europe’s hot seatFri Sep 17 2021 - 16:30
What lies ahead for Germany’s post-Merkel political economy?All election promises on tax and pension reform acknowledge recent era’s neglectFri Sep 17 2021 - 05:13
Former VW executives go on trial over diesel scamFour face charges of commercial and organised criminal fraudThu Sep 16 2021 - 18:45
German prosecutors accused of politicised campaign against election front runnerProsecutors deny raid on Scholz’s ministry was orchestrated to harm SPD campaignThu Sep 16 2021 - 18:19
AfD struggles for populist traction ahead of German electionMerkel’s departure has robbed far-right party of its favourite electoral hate figureWed Sep 15 2021 - 19:19
Covid conspiracy theorists complicate path to German electionPoliticians face dilemma over those who don’t want to be vaccinated ahead of autumn voteTue Sep 14 2021 - 18:13
Laschet presents action plan after trailing Scholz in German election debateCDU leader has less than two weeks to close five-point gap to SPDMon Sep 13 2021 - 17:58
German election gets dirty amid Trump and Nazi comparisonsCDU steps up attacks on SPD in federal election campaign as final Merkel term nears endSun Sep 12 2021 - 17:56
Ireland’s break with its Catholic past incomplete, says Sally RooneyAuthor says unanswered questions remain regarding the treatment of womenSun Sep 12 2021 - 16:23
Loud and Cleare: The Offaly woman wowing audiences with breakthrough soundsAnn Cleare is a sought-after talent and next year sees her opera in Munich about BrexitSat Sep 11 2021 - 06:00
Armin Laschet: German chancellor hopeful whose own party hides his election postersCDU leader’s ‘safe’ campaign is in the doldrums ahead of this month’s electionSat Sep 11 2021 - 05:00
Germany’s SPD accuses rival CDU of dirty tricks following raids on ministriesOlaf Scholz reacts to searches targeting party ministries two weeks before electionFri Sep 10 2021 - 20:40
‘Titanic mood’: EPP group suffers anxiety of post-Merkel eraVaradkar urges fresh focus on core values, as CDU braced for election losses in GermanyThu Sep 9 2021 - 20:00