Germany

Dutch, German and Belgian police publish confidential details in effort to solve crimes spanning 50-year period

Earlier reports indicated one person had been killed at manufacturing facility in Sindelfingen with one person arrested

Chancellor Scholz tells European Parliament need for the reform is ‘obvious’

Drop comes days after weak factory orders data, raises questions on ECB rate rises

Problems facing Germany’s second most expensive rental market are not dissimilar to our own: a lack of new-builds, a surge of new arrivals and a failed rent-cap attempt

Evelyn Zupke describes herself as a ‘model socialist child’ until teenage rebellion kicked in and she realised that the grand promises of German socialism were false

Some victims want to understand why they cannot trust people - even their own children, says lead counsellor

Christian Brueckner has been linked to disappearance of British girl in Portugal in 2007

On his visit to the city, German president Steinmeier presented with copy of Poland’s €1.3tn WWII damages claim

Several victims were taken to hospital, while investigators searched the facility in Duisburg and questioned witnesses to the incident

Calls grow for state inquiry after report accuses ex-head of bishops’ conference of shielding abusing priests

German artist says he ‘applied as a cheeky monkey’ to find out if competitions are prepared for AI images to enter

Move prompts criticism in Berlin over the ex-chancellor’s mixed record on energy security and Russia

A new exhibition in the Polish capital tells the story of the revolt as those on the inside saw it

Smoking towers were shut forever on Saturday as Berlin enacts its plan for fully-renewable electricity

Cyclists and pedestrians can photograph offending vehicles and file a complaint with authorities

Billionaire Mathias Döpfner’s messages denounce Merkel’s politics and pray for Trump’s re-election

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After a two-decade transition away from nuclear, Germany is stepping up its pivot towards renewables

Conscientious objector claims church asylum after Berlin court orders his deportation

Draft bill scales back ambitious plans to permit the sale of cannabis in licensed outlets

‘This step is important despite the odds because Oisín was our son and we will never stop loving him or give up on him,” said David Osborn

Charlie Flanagan says internal HSE review of youth service ‘wholly inadequate’ and independent investigation is required

Wieland Giebel’s Berlin Story Bunker is a historic warning of growing modern horrors

Health minister promised to introduce legislation for a first parliamentary reading ‘immediately’ after Easter

Polls this week suggest that if elections were held on Sunday, the coalition would have no parliamentary majority

Investigation stemming from Germany is separate from Qatargate probe

Any successful unification, a German politician suggests, should take best from both societies rather than just impose one system on the other

King lays wreath at the ruins of St Nicholas’s church, a memorial site to July 1943 firestorms

British monarch says the UK and Germany have shown ‘vital leadership’ as Europe’s largest military aid donors to Ukraine

German president Frank Walter Steinmeier said the royal couple’s visit was ‘an important signal for German-British relations’

Employers criticise scale of strike and dismiss pay demands as impossible to finance

Airports and bus and train stations are closed as unions call 24-hour protests over cost of living

Police now investigating after responding shortly after midnight to incident

Phase out of internal combustion engine stalled by German coalition qualms

Former German chancellor turns crime-solver in a fictionalised series that has split critics but tickled many viewers

Klaus Müller says industry and households will have to make more savings to avoid power crisis

Thinking in a Climate Emergency: Ireland could learn from the Dutch and German example of energy co-operatives to speed up our transition to renewables

Former Wirecard CEO maintains he has no responsibility for one of Europe’s biggest corporate frauds

Brother and sister are at a crossroads in this autobiographical work translated by Lucy Jones