Berlin wall anniversary: How I escaped from East Berlin in a Lotus sports carEva Röser fled for the West in 1978, aged 27 and pregnantFri Nov 8 2019 - 11:45
Amid anniversary tourism, a quiet remembrance of Berlin Wall deadIn a tiny chapel on the ‘death strip’, Berliners will mark 30 years since the wall was toppledFri Nov 8 2019 - 05:00
Berlin Wall anniversary sparks thaw in artistic cold warAfter 1989 many writers, actors, singers – and their work – sank without trace in the united GermanyWed Nov 6 2019 - 14:19
Stasi files catalogue tragedy and trauma of four toxic decadesGerman Democratic Republic’s secret police had a pair of eyes and ears for every 230 East GermansWed Nov 6 2019 - 01:00
‘A permanent state of schizophrenia’: growing up in East GermanyFall of Berlin Wall led to mixed emotions for Germany’s ambassador to IrelandMon Nov 4 2019 - 21:20
‘I know no one here anymore’: The long goodbye to East BerlinJalda Rebling witnessed history but, as Germany marks fall of the wall, she will be goneMon Nov 4 2019 - 01:00
United Berlin at 30: A city still in search of its true soulAlways becoming, never being, cranes on the horizon and gravel crunching underfootSat Nov 2 2019 - 06:00
Prison baby: East German injustice haunts Berlin Wall anniversaryMaud Grzemba was born in jail after the wall was built in world terrorised by Stasi officialsThu Oct 31 2019 - 20:00
Poland’s democracy is not a priority for many of its votersJaroslaw Kaczynski realised before his rivals that most voters just want to make ends meetThu Oct 17 2019 - 00:45
What’s the German word for a feeling of being left in the dark?Berlin officials try to remain optimistic ahead of potential Brexit breakthroughTue Oct 15 2019 - 14:32
Polish opposition vows to stand up to government reformsRuling Law and Justice party takes 44% of vote, eight seats more than absolute majorityMon Oct 14 2019 - 19:06
Kaczynski’s nationalist party is clear winner in Polish general electionLaw and Justice (PiS) party set to secure absolute majority in parliamentSun Oct 13 2019 - 22:00
Polish conservatives in final push to secure re-electionPiS party deploys laws on mining and criticism of LGBT people in pursuit of poll boostFri Oct 11 2019 - 20:00
German held over killings admits far-right, anti-Semitic beliefsMedia criticised for use of live-stream images and coverage of attack on synagogueFri Oct 11 2019 - 16:24
Polish conservative re-election hinges on regional voteVoters increasingly ready to back party with narrow policies promising individual benefitThu Oct 10 2019 - 20:32
German synagogue attack suspect planned ‘massacre’, prosecutors sayShock after gunman livestreamed attack in Halle in which two people were shot deadThu Oct 10 2019 - 18:54
Two killed in ‘anti-Semitic’ shooting in GermanyMan arrested after attack on synagogue in Halle during Yom Kippur streamed onlineWed Oct 9 2019 - 20:06
The Polish judge facing down threats and the ruling partyMalgorzata Gersdorf warns Poland is on the brink of authoritarianism ahead of electionWed Oct 9 2019 - 20:00
Poland’s right-wing government finds a new targetVoters being warned of plague of so-called ‘LGBT ideology’ ahead of Sunday pollsWed Oct 9 2019 - 01:00
Germany shrugs off British leaks of Brexit phone call between Johnson and MerkelSenior official in Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union says there is ‘no new German position on Brexit’Tue Oct 8 2019 - 17:34
Germans increasingly divided over unification legacyMajority of easterners unimpressed with how democracy is practiced in GermanyThu Oct 3 2019 - 18:19
The Dane, the German and the ‘borrowed’ passportIf his attempt to flee East Berlin failed, he risked prison. If it succeeded, he might not see his family againTue Oct 1 2019 - 18:59
Strache under fire as populist FPÖ plunges in Austrian pollCoalition options await Sebastian Kurz as conservative ÖVP wins 38% of snap electionMon Sep 30 2019 - 18:44
Judge in Germany urges VW to settle diesel emissions casesCourt urges compromise with 470,000 owners in case that could stretch to 2023Mon Sep 30 2019 - 16:30
Austria election: Kurz set to return to power after snap pollFormer chancellor’s conservatives make gains while far-right Freedom Party slipsSun Sep 29 2019 - 19:52
20 years after I ‘did’ Erasmus, Berlin is still my homeAt the time, it seemed like a tiresome hoop to jump through. But it changed my lifeSat Sep 28 2019 - 06:00
Greens eye power in Austrian electionGlobal climate protest may propel Vienna away from populist-conservative coalitionFri Sep 27 2019 - 20:00
Austria’s populist party shrugs off scandal in re-election bidFreedom Party leader Hofer expected to be in a position to form another coalition with the People’s PartyThu Sep 26 2019 - 22:00
Austrian election: Sebastian Kurz pushes for return to officeCountry’s political wunderkind will have to work exceedingly hard for a return to powerThu Sep 26 2019 - 01:00
Power changed Merkel’s climate record – for the worseChancellor’s interest in climate ebbs when it conflicts with German commercial interestsWed Sep 25 2019 - 01:39
Angela Merkel mocked for ‘pick and mix’ climate packageProtesters criticise German chancellor’s carbon dioxide tax and fuel hike measuresFri Sep 20 2019 - 20:24
Millions of Europeans take part in strike for climate actionProtests mark 1st anniversary of Greta Thunberg’s solo school strike in StockholmFri Sep 20 2019 - 17:27
David Hasselhoff didn’t bring down Berlin Wall – take it from The Hoff himselfUS actor and singer's Looking for Freedom became part of Germany’s 1989 protestsThu Sep 19 2019 - 09:40
Ice breakthrough: German ship begins year-long voyage to ArcticPolarstern scientific environmental mission to drift with currents to North PoleWed Sep 18 2019 - 20:09
AfD politician confronted about reviving ‘Nazi language’Björn Höcke rattled by reporter’s questions about his use of terms such as ‘living space’Mon Sep 16 2019 - 18:35
Volkswagen denies it fitted defeat devices into second engine modelLeaked documents suggest software fitted to detect if exhaust test being carried outThu Sep 12 2019 - 16:56
German MPs ditch Brexit for climate action amid budget debateAngela Merkel calls for a ‘show of strength’ from EU on environment and digitalisationWed Sep 11 2019 - 21:06
China warns Germany over visit by Hong Kong activistDemocracy campaigner Joshua Wong labels Hong Kong ‘the new Berlin’ on German tripWed Sep 11 2019 - 20:15
Austrian People’s Party calls alleged hack an ‘attack on democracy’News comes ahead of snap election and after revelation party broke spending lawsFri Sep 6 2019 - 18:41
Angst hits 25-year low in Germany, the country that invented itStudy suggests Germans feeling unusually chipper after ‘retreat in nearly all worries’Fri Sep 6 2019 - 17:03
Two men jailed in Germany for decades of child abuseJudge calls men’s tactics, befriending single parents online to get closer to their children, ‘perfidious’Thu Sep 5 2019 - 18:49
For good or ill, September 2015 was the making of Angela MerkelA gripping docudrama on German TV recounts the chancellor’s handling of the refugee crisisThu Sep 5 2019 - 10:22
SPD begins extended search for new leaderPublic selection process is a novelty, and a risk, for Germany’s oldest partyWed Sep 4 2019 - 21:09
Derek Scally: Merkel method will be missed on world stageTrump approach is anathema to German chancellor’s level-headed approach to compromiseWed Sep 4 2019 - 01:21
CDU leader rules out far-right co-operationAfD’s success has reshuffled Germany’s coalition arithmetic for mainstream partiesMon Sep 2 2019 - 19:07
Berlin zoo announces birth of twin panda cubsPanda couple, Meng Meng and Jiao Qing, produce first panda cubs born in GermanyMon Sep 2 2019 - 14:59
Germany’s far-right party AfD leaps into political prime timeElection shows greater changes are underway in Germany’s wider political systemMon Sep 2 2019 - 13:04
German regional elections produce far-right surgeExit polls put AfD finishing second with 27.5% in Saxony and 22.5% in BrandenburgSun Sep 1 2019 - 20:47
German president asks Poland’s forgiveness for Nazi tyrannyEvents held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of second World WarSun Sep 1 2019 - 17:36
Weekend regional elections set to reshape German politicsOne key frustration is the growing fatigue with Merkle and her liberal migration legacyFri Aug 30 2019 - 20:00