German report dismisses ‘restrictive’ arms exports claimGreenpeace study finds German-made weapons are fuelling conflict around the worldMon Jul 20 2020 - 17:59
Polish presidential election turns into two-horse raceCritics fear a Duda re-election will mark the end of liberal democracy, 30 years after end of communist ruleFri Jun 26 2020 - 20:00
Locals at Austrian ski resort blamed for Covid-19 spread show high rate of antibodies42% of those in Ischgl found to have antibodies, with vast majority asymptomaticThu Jun 25 2020 - 16:55
Wirecard collapses owing €3.5 billionShares in Wirecard down 90% in a week after German company files for insolvencyThu Jun 25 2020 - 10:19
German court injunction could limit Facebook’s data collectionFacebook defends data policy and insists nothing will change for its German usersWed Jun 24 2020 - 18:41
Holiday standoff looms over German Covid-19 hotspotFederal states unwilling to host holidaymakers from stricken WestphaliaWed Jun 24 2020 - 17:54
Former Wirecard chief Markus Braun arrestedEx-head of scandal-hit German fintech company released from custody on €5m bailTue Jun 23 2020 - 18:27
German court orders Facebook to stop collecting user dataOrder against social media giant’s Dublin operation says it abuses market dominationTue Jun 23 2020 - 18:23
Coronavirus: Germany imposes local lockdown after meat plant outbreakGütersloh region, with 370,000 people, faces new measures days before official holidaysTue Jun 23 2020 - 15:18
Stuttgart riot prompts pushback against attacks on policeGermany facing law and order ‘alarm signal’ following street battles, says ministerMon Jun 22 2020 - 19:28
Covid-19 outbreak prompts lockdown calls in Germany's most populous stateSome 7,000 quarantined around meat processing plant at centre of new outbreakMon Jun 22 2020 - 18:38
Austrian artist produces fantasy European rail map to counter Covid-19 bluesMetropa map shows Ireland connected to Istanbul in idealised supermetro networkSun Jun 21 2020 - 15:00
Bundesbank president to break taboo and brief German parliament on ECBMove responds to court ruling on ECB bond-buyingFri Jun 19 2020 - 16:26
Goodbye to Rome? Former pope Benedict visits ailing brother in BavariaJoseph Ratzinger (93) visiting bedridden older brother, with no return trip scheduledFri Jun 19 2020 - 15:44
Angela Merkel strikes optimistic note ahead of EU presidency stintGerman leader hopeful multibillion Covid-19 crisis fund can be agreed by member statesThu Jun 18 2020 - 18:30
Germany faces into bitter debate on police racismPeople of colour have come forward with stories of random security checks and racial profilingWed Jun 17 2020 - 18:00
Irish poet’s lockdown verse debuts as choral work in BerlinLive online performance of ‘Isolation’ by Gerard Smyth to take place on Wednesday eveningWed Jun 17 2020 - 14:00
Two men go on trial for politician’s murder in GermanyMurder of Walter Lübcke in 2019 shocked country amid growing violence against politiciansTue Jun 16 2020 - 17:01
Coronavirus: Traffic jams and a run on cigarettes as many EU borders openGermany opens its doors as Spain brings forward reopening by 10 days to June 21stMon Jun 15 2020 - 17:24
German author defends dystopian ‘health dictatorship’ novel with Covid-19 parallelsA protest movement sees ‘Corpus Delicti’ as a foretaste of what is to come in a second waveMon Jun 15 2020 - 17:00
Polish president revives attacks on LGBT community in re-election campaignAndrzej Duda warns Poles to be vigilant against ‘foreign’ attempts to co-opt nation’s identityFri Jun 12 2020 - 20:00
Swedish prosecutor names suspected killer of prime minister Olof PalmeStig Engstrom – who is dead – carried out 1986 assassination, investigators concludeWed Jun 10 2020 - 10:27
Sweden to present findings on killing of prime minister Olof PalmeCharismatic leader was shot dead in 1986 in incident that became nation’s ‘open wound’Tue Jun 09 2020 - 21:00
Polish government finances LGBT-critical articlesTiming coincides with the release of a film on paedophile priests in the Polish churchSun Jun 07 2020 - 16:30
Why is Germany suddenly embracing its inner Keynesian?‘The Swabian housewife has learned to act more like a Swabian SME,’ says academicSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:28
Madeleine McCann case: ‘We assume the girl is dead’, German prosecutors sayGerman child sex offender (43) is being investigated on suspicion of murderFri Jun 05 2020 - 06:06
Europe continues cautious reopening as Covid-19 inquiries loomSweden and Denmark to open inquiries into coronavirus lockdown strategiesWed Jun 03 2020 - 17:41
Solutions to Karlsruhe conundrum start to emergeGerman politicians mull options amid two clashing views of EU jurisprudenceSat May 30 2020 - 02:00
Return of cross to rebuilt Prussian palace vexes some BerlinersSymbolic addition to dome of Humboldt Forum proves ideologically controversialFri May 29 2020 - 17:35
Poland supreme court appointment raises fresh fears about independenceMalgorzata Manowska, who has links to ruling PiS party, chosen as court presidentTue May 26 2020 - 16:47
Volkswagen agrees to compensate tens of thousands of German motoristsLeipzig court ruling opens door to claims from at least 60,000 car ownersMon May 25 2020 - 15:20
Schrems calls on EU authorities to intervene in ‘Kafkaesque’ DPC caseCampaigner claims watchdog met Facebook regularly before introduction of GDPR rulesMon May 25 2020 - 15:07
Lockdown fatigue fuels conspiracy theory marches in GermanyEach Saturday has seen growing numbers defying the ban on public assembliesFri May 22 2020 - 19:00
Covid-19 outbreaks prompts tighter German meat industry regulationMeat processors face €30,000 fines for each employee whose labour rights are violatedWed May 20 2020 - 18:40
John Paul II centenary celebrations marred by new abuse allegationsWadowice, near Krakow, birthplace of Karol Wojtyla on May 18th, 1920, draws crowdsMon May 18 2020 - 20:39
Minding our own business – An Irishman’s Diary on what the Germans can teach us about celebrity and privacySun May 17 2020 - 14:01
All eyes on Germany with hopes that ghost games can lift spiritsBundesliga return divides opinion in the country while concerns among players remainSat May 16 2020 - 06:00
What Germany can teach Ireland’s Green Party about taking power – and keeping itThe Greens in Germany reached out to sceptics and changed their country’s politicsSat May 16 2020 - 06:00
Germans prepare to break for the borders as travel ban is easedSaturday’s reopening of borders marks a tentative first step to resuscitate tourismFri May 15 2020 - 18:22
Sweden forced to face runaway Covid-19 care home deathsPoor preparation and volunteer programme are blamed for death rate in old-age homesThu May 14 2020 - 19:50
Merkel claims deeper EU integration will solve rows over bond-buyingGerman chancellor says it is time to ‘act cleverly’ so the euro can continue to existWed May 13 2020 - 17:56
Germans gripped by real-life War of the CovidsA German television show presented a mash-up of its favourite Drosten/Streeck clips. The music was ‘Who let the Docs out?’Tue May 12 2020 - 20:00
German secondary school state exams continue despite oppositionLeaving Cert equivalent should be cancelled due to coronavirus concerns, say studentsTue May 12 2020 - 01:40
German sex workers struggle amid Covid-19 lockdownLegalised brothels have been given no indication when they can reopen for businessFri May 08 2020 - 19:50
‘Enriching for the soul’: Irish soda bread becomes lockdown hit in Germany‘Sodabrot’ overtakes sourdough to become Germany’s hottest pandemic recipeFri May 08 2020 - 18:57
Germany turns lens inward on 75th anniversary of war’s endQuestions of blame and responsibility still dominate most ambivalent day in calendarFri May 08 2020 - 01:00
Journalist accuses ex-French president Giscard d’Estaing of groping herGerman journalist sues over incident alleged to have taken place during 2018 interviewThu May 07 2020 - 16:04
Poland postpones Sunday’s presidental election due to Covid-19Weeks of political chaos end with ruling PiS announcing June as earliest date for pollThu May 07 2020 - 11:13
Germany needs to hear the truth about the euroConstitutional court ruling may focus debate on real value of single currency for GermanyThu May 07 2020 - 00:45
Germany adds emergency brake to new easing of lockdownMerkel and state leaders agree to open shops and schools as outbreak ‘more or less’ under controlWed May 06 2020 - 16:03
