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 08 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 07 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 07 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 07 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 06 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 06 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 06 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 05 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 04 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 03 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 03 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 01 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 25 2021 - 05:00
Close-fought German election goes down to the wireCandidates deliver final effort to secure chancellery after Merkel’s departureFri Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 20 2021 - 18:00
Schäuble blames CDU difficulties on outgoing MerkelParty trails in opinion polls as Armin Laschet struggles in campaign deemed fiascoSun Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 17 2021 - 05:13
Former VW executives go on trial over diesel scamFour face charges of commercial and organised criminal fraudThu Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 12 2021 - 17:56
Ireland’s break with its Catholic past incomplete, says Sally RooneyAuthor says unanswered questions remain regarding the treatment of womenSun Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 09 2021 - 20:00
Merkel’s election intervention causes uproar in German parliamentOutgoing chancellor uses final address to promote Laschet as her successorTue Sept 07 2021 - 20:00
Derek Scally: In fairness, our health system is illTime to stop calling out ‘in fairness’ about things that are anything but fairTue Sept 07 2021 - 00:20
German liberals shift from political joker to coalition wildcardClever pandemic positioning has helped FDP pull away protest voters from far-right AfDMon Sept 06 2021 - 20:00
