German churches keep the Christmas music playing on otherwise silent nightsChurch music has proven a lifeline for many Germans as a trying year draws to a closeSat Dec 05 2020 - 01:00
Austria tightens borders and imposes ski restrictions for ChristmasStricter measures come amid figures showing record level of 2,431 deaths in one weekThu Dec 03 2020 - 21:44
German town of Trier in mourning after SUV driver kills fiveSuspect (51) appears before judge after car mowed down pedestrians, with baby among deadWed Dec 02 2020 - 17:57
Germany: Man arrested after car ploughs through city street, killing at least fiveLocal man with no terrorist links questioned, as at least 15 injured in western city of TrierTue Dec 01 2020 - 19:50
Frayed nerves in Germany as political unity over Covid-19 fragmentsRegions increasingly diverge on rules ahead of Christmas as ‘coronabsurdities’ mountMon Nov 30 2020 - 18:09
Will Europe shut down its ski resorts this winter?Germany, France and Italy want Europe’s pistes to stay shut. Austria says noSat Nov 28 2020 - 05:00
Austria bids farewell to Fucking after a millennium of misunderstandingsVillage of 100 residents near Salzburg – a modern selfie hell – to be renamed FuggingFri Nov 27 2020 - 16:08
German researchers claim risk of Covid transmission at live classical music is manageableMany wind instruments have a design that traps and condenses aerosols internallyThu Nov 26 2020 - 20:00
Stand-off in Europe over plan to ban ski season due to Covid-19Austria rejects proposals by Germany, France and Italy to postpone ski seasonThu Nov 26 2020 - 17:41
Germany extends partial lockdown to allow 10-day Christmas amnestyMerkel meets regional leaders as country registers highest daily death toll of 410Wed Nov 25 2020 - 21:00
Pragmatism pushes Greens towards power in GermanySome 800 delegates from party’s rival wings present united front for looming election battleTue Nov 24 2020 - 19:00
Germans push back against anti-mask Nazi resistance comparisonsOpponents of Covid-19 restrictions embrace idea of fighting totalitarian German stateMon Nov 23 2020 - 20:24
Bundestag MPs turn on AfD after parliamentary provocationDebate sparked as chamber agitators turn out to be invited guests of far-right politicianFri Nov 20 2020 - 20:41
Teacher suspected of eating man he met in online chat forum is remanded in custodyPolice raided apartment and found freezer with traces of human blood and a bone sawFri Nov 20 2020 - 15:48
Catholic church in Germany under pressure on abuse reportsAachen hierarchy more receptive to account of systemic failures than Cologne peersThu Nov 19 2020 - 19:30
Angela Merkel put on trial in German climate change drama set in 2034TV film features an 80-year-old former chancellor accused of environment failuresThu Nov 19 2020 - 01:00
Police deploy water cannon to disperse Covid-19 protest in BerlinAbout 10,000 take part in demonstration against coronavirus-related restrictionsWed Nov 18 2020 - 13:21
Berlin’s rent cap could fall victim to law of unintended consequencesBerlin Letter: Rapidly shrinking rental market may hit poorer renters hardestWed Nov 18 2020 - 01:00
German police swoop on suspected jewel thievesHeist in Dresden last year saw 94 priceless pieces of jewellery stolen from Green VaultTue Nov 17 2020 - 17:15
Austria to launch mass testing as tight lockdown resumesSebastian Kurz says country will shut down almost completely until December 6thMon Nov 16 2020 - 20:03
Five on trial in Germany accused of operating paedophile ringBoys allegedly drugged with ecstasy and knock-out drops for often lengthy abuseThu Nov 12 2020 - 18:45
Polish bishops ask Rome to investigate former papal secretaryAny investigation would raise to at least 16 the number of clerics undergoing or facing canonical investigations in RomeWed Nov 11 2020 - 18:32
Germans mourn Carnival cancellation amid Covid-19 fearsBlack day for Cologne: ‘This time there will be no celebrating, no singing and no dancing’Tue Nov 10 2020 - 18:31
Covid vaccine a ‘victory for innovation’, says German company developing drugBioNTech’s work could provide a major breakthrough in the fight against the pandemicMon Nov 09 2020 - 20:42
Merkel expresses hope Biden will revive ‘treasure’ of transatlantic tiesUS expects more from EU ‘and rightly so’, German chancellor saysMon Nov 09 2020 - 18:41
Denmark locks down North Jutland after Covid-19 mutation in mink farmsPrime minister announces new restrictions affecting 280,000 people, and has ordered the cull of millions of mink on farmsFri Nov 06 2020 - 14:39
Germany adopts loose lockdown despite record-breaking Covid-19 casesSchools, hairdressers and shops remain open in ‘lockdown lite’ as testing hits capacityThu Nov 05 2020 - 17:28
Polish government stalls publication of controversial abortion BillConservative Law and Justice party and its partners alarmed by burgeoning protestsWed Nov 04 2020 - 18:12
Austrian anti-terrorism agency ignored warnings on Vienna gunmanAustria’s interior minister says Slovakia alerted BVT to attempt to buy ammunitionWed Nov 04 2020 - 18:09
Terror will not divide Austria, chancellor says in wake of Vienna attackFour killed and 17 injured in shooting spree by 20-year-old Islamic State supporterTue Nov 03 2020 - 18:25
Vienna: At least two dead, several injured in ‘terror attack’ in cityManhunt under way after shooting takes place at six locations in Austrian capitalMon Nov 02 2020 - 22:56
Row over unpublished report on Cologne clerical sex abuse cover-upReport falls victim to legal claims and a power battle among two church campsMon Nov 02 2020 - 17:36
Missing Wirecard executive could be Austrian spy, prosecutors sayJan Marsalek disappaeared the day he was fired as details of €3bn fraud emergedFri Oct 30 2020 - 17:43
Poland braced for violent protests over abortion restrictionsPolish women’s groups prepare to face off against police and neo-fascists as rallies continueFri Oct 30 2020 - 17:31
Merkel prepares Germans for ‘hard winter’ and second lockdownBundestag opposition warns of ‘crisis of trust’ in government with bars, restaurants to closeThu Oct 29 2020 - 19:41
Berlin’s new airport eyes Halloween opening after seven years of horrorsBER is nine years late, wildly over budget and opening during a pandemicThu Oct 29 2020 - 19:00
Germany to impose month-long partial lockdown from Monday‘We are in a new situation we may soon no longer be able to master’ warns finance ministerWed Oct 28 2020 - 19:02
Polish leader urges supporters to defend church, state against pro-choice ‘nihilists’Deputy PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski insists protesters a threat to public order, Polish valuesWed Oct 28 2020 - 15:59
CDU dismisses claims of leadership intrigueMerz sees postponed party conference as part of campaign to give rivals time to boost supportTue Oct 27 2020 - 19:14
Warsaw braced for further protests after anti-abortion rulingAbortions now legal only in cases of rape, incest or threat to the mother’s healthFri Oct 23 2020 - 18:14
Angela Merkel’s party in a tizzy as it struggles to appoint a new leaderCoronavirus has hobbled the CDU’s long-running efforts to reach a decisionFri Oct 23 2020 - 18:05
‘I will shoot you’: German politicians hit with Covid hate mailRestrictions devised to protect public health draw stream of insults from furious citizensThu Oct 22 2020 - 17:02
Schäuble demands that Bundestag reclaim Covid-19 initiativeGerman MPs urged to take back control of Covid legislation rather than rubberstamp extension of emergency provisions enacted in MarchWed Oct 21 2020 - 16:31
Berlin police have no motive for worst case of art vandalism in post-war GermanyAttack on at least 63 artworks took place in three museums in Museum Island complexWed Oct 21 2020 - 15:20
Nothing's sacred: 'INRI' crucifix legend trademarked by T-shirt visionaryWerner Lustig is optimistic there is money to be made from 2,000-year-old Roman insultWed Oct 21 2020 - 01:00
Merkel snubs German state leaders in direct Covid-19 appealDiminishing political unity contributing to public fatigue with restrictions, experts fearMon Oct 19 2020 - 19:10
German church rehabilitates disgraced Nazi-era pastorFriedrich Klein stripped of ordination rights in 1943 in response to Nazi military court convictionMon Oct 05 2020 - 18:04
Derek Scally: Some home thoughts from Berlin on Covid-19I’m struck by how many of my friends at home feel that anxious and bitter people are setting the pandemic agendaMon Oct 05 2020 - 00:48
Reunited Germany, 30 years on: ‘We have a permanent hullabaloo’Three decades ago 63 million West Germans and 16 million East Germans reunitedSat Oct 03 2020 - 05:00
Swiss bank ordered to pay compensation for missing East German millionsSubsidiary of Julius Bär bank helped hide cash for ruling party in state’s dying daysFri Oct 02 2020 - 16:47
