Coronavirus: Austrian supermarket mask rule divides expertsSome doctors are concerned that few will heed the golden rules of wearing a maskThu Apr 02 2020 - 18:03
Polish Catholic Church liable for sex abuse compensation claimsSupreme court ruling gives clear signal to survivors and religious for future casesWed Apr 01 2020 - 18:42
Coronavirus tales confirm – and shatter – German stereotypesBerlin Letter: A piano is better than passive aggression for reinforcing new social rulesWed Apr 01 2020 - 01:00
German coronavirus response rests on early testing and long-term investmentCountry’s death toll is below global average and intensive care bed numbers are well aboveMon Mar 30 2020 - 18:07
Coronavirus: No dramas as German theatres produce protective masks‘We checked if we were allowed, then got straight to work’ says head of wardrobeFri Mar 27 2020 - 17:59
German firm Bosch to cut coronavirus test time ‘to 2½ hours’Engineering giant says automated system will boost country’s already high test rateThu Mar 26 2020 - 16:25
German politicians back €156bn emergency budget‘No blueprint’ as spending boosted to aid economy and healthcare amid Covid-19 crisisWed Mar 25 2020 - 19:48
Sweden resists mandatory coronavirus measuresScandinavian state registers more than 2,500 cases by Wednesday and 42 fatalitiesWed Mar 25 2020 - 18:09
German packages to cushion against Covid-19 now collectively worth €1 trillionBerlin determined to use ‘all we have’ to limit looming economic crisisMon Mar 23 2020 - 19:37
Coronavirus: Angela Merkel in quarantine after her doctor tests positiveGerman chancellor had earlier announced tighter measures on public gatheringsSun Mar 22 2020 - 18:42
Coronavirus: Bavaria imposes total ban on movementTwo-week ban followed by southwestern state SaarlandFri Mar 20 2020 - 21:51
‘Ibiza of the Alps’ ski resort blamed for spread of coronavirusHundreds of cases across Europe linked to ‘party machine’ on Austrian slopes of IshglThu Mar 19 2020 - 20:35
German politicians threaten curfew on party peoplePolice in Germany’s major cities are hard-pressed to tackle impromptu parties in parksThu Mar 19 2020 - 19:38
Coronavirus greatest challenge since second World War, Merkel says‘This is serious. Take it seriously,’ German chancellor says in rare broadcast to nationWed Mar 18 2020 - 18:26
Panic-buying of gold as Germany goes into coronavirus lockdownBerlin Letter: ‘At times like this you need to diversify ... gold is always a safe investment’Wed Mar 18 2020 - 16:00
Coronavirus: German vaccine developer rejects US buy-up bidDonald Trump is reportedly trying to gain exclusive access to German firm’s reseachMon Mar 16 2020 - 12:26
Ireland should beware the perils of a grand coalitionFianna Fáil and Fine Gael must heed the lessons of Germany’s 15-year coalitionMon Feb 17 2020 - 00:48
Germany warns against undermining western multilateral orderMunich security conference told US, China and Russia are sharing a short-sighted goalFri Feb 14 2020 - 18:22
European Commission president denies defence irregularitiesVon der Leyen denies squandering hundreds of millions as German defence ministerThu Feb 13 2020 - 20:02
Propaganda battle overshadows Dresden fire-bombing memorialSteinmeier warns on efforts to ‘offset the dead of Dresden with the dead of Auschwitz’Thu Feb 13 2020 - 19:09
Germany’s CDU party bickers over leadership race timetableSenior party officials question outgoing leader’s timetable for appointing successorWed Feb 12 2020 - 19:07
Germany: Christian Democratic Union faces identity crisisSearch for leader underway after Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer resigns amid pressure from fringesTue Feb 11 2020 - 19:46
Merkel future hangs in balance after surprise resignationResignation of CDU leader after 14 months in role triggers speculation about snap electionMon Feb 10 2020 - 20:37
AKK announces departure with swipe at MerkelKramp-Karrenbauer resigns as CDU leader triggers debate about party divisionsMon Feb 10 2020 - 20:00
AKK departure is a humiliation for Angela MerkelGerman chancellor’s plan to stay in office until fourth term ends next year is now in doubtMon Feb 10 2020 - 16:34
Angela Merkel’s successor as CDU party leader to stand downAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will not seek German chancellorship after regional election debacleMon Feb 10 2020 - 10:36
CDU support slumps after far-right alliance with AfDResignations follow Thuringia deal with extremists and Kramp-Karrenbauer is taintedFri Feb 07 2020 - 20:23
Thuringia outcome echoes dangers of Weimar republicRight-wing extremist backing for liberal Thomas Kemmerich nods to demons of pastThu Feb 06 2020 - 19:41
German state leader elected with help of far right stands downGerman chancellor Angela Merkel hits out at ‘unforgiveable’ alliance amid outcryThu Feb 06 2020 - 19:39
Germany has suffered a political earthquake. What happened?Far-right AfD becomes kingmaker in regional election, sending tremors through BerlinThu Feb 06 2020 - 15:18
AfD support for state premier triggers uproar in GermanyParliamentary sitting in Erfurt takes a taboo-breaking turn with far-right party’s helpWed Feb 05 2020 - 18:10
Siemens agm picketed over Australian mine contractUnder-fire departing chief executive Joe Kaeser dismissed concerns as ‘irrelevant’Wed Feb 05 2020 - 17:20
Holocaust deniers targeting German concentration camp memorialsRise in swastika graffiti in camps and disturbances to tours by far-right supportersTue Feb 04 2020 - 18:45
Berlin artist ‘hacks’ Google Maps to cause fake traffic alertSimon Weckert uses 99 smartphones to create a virtual tailback on tech giant’s 15th birthdayTue Feb 04 2020 - 18:22
German regulator says Irish data protection commission is being 'overwhelmed'Kelber says Irish regulator’s ‘go-slow’ approach to Facebook similar to Germany’s ‘dieselgate’ scandalMon Feb 03 2020 - 05:27
Indifference dehumanises us – An Irishman’s Diary on how Auschwitz shames us allMon Feb 03 2020 - 00:01
Europe’s rail renaissance hoping to leave red tape behindClimate concerns and more overnight travel have boosted passenger numbers but standardising railway systems is still trickySat Feb 01 2020 - 10:00
Berlin’s vanishing nightclubs: ‘The open sex in all corners can be distracting’Gentrification of the German capital is threatening its vibrant, decadent club sceneSat Feb 01 2020 - 06:00
Germany under fire over reform of Nazi citizenship rulesGovernment blocks proposal to cement in law liberalisation of citizenship restitutionFri Jan 31 2020 - 17:31
Coronavirus: Lufthansa cancels all flights to China as four cases confirmed in GermanyPatients are all employees at car parts firm recently visited by a Chinese colleagueWed Jan 29 2020 - 19:38
Higgins says claim UN criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic ‘inappropriate’Jewish conference president tells Auschwitz memorial day ‘anti-Zionism is nothing but anti-Semitism’Tue Jan 28 2020 - 18:16
Auschwitz survivors urge action on anti-Semitism‘Do not be indifferent when any power or government infringes on extant social rights’Mon Jan 27 2020 - 21:52
‘Auschwitz did not fall suddenly from the sky’ – Holocaust survivors speakAt the site of the Nazi death camp, former prisoners made one last plea to humanityMon Jan 27 2020 - 20:41
Auschwitz anniversary: ‘I probably saw 300,000 Jewish people perish right in front of me’75 years after the liberation of the death camp survivors recall its unspeakable horrorMon Jan 27 2020 - 13:53
Pall hangs over Germany ahead of Auschwitz anniversaryThree-quarters of a century after death camp atrocity, rise of far-right resurrects old fearsSat Jan 25 2020 - 01:00
Brussels intervenes as stand-off over Polish judicial reforms deepensConcerns for rule of law under PiS prompt request for EU court to dismiss measuresFri Jan 24 2020 - 20:57
Eyewitness to Auschwitz: ‘We were held in the wagons like animals’Sheindi Miller-Ehrenwald’s diary details her experience in the death campWed Jan 22 2020 - 16:34
Berlin summit agrees on renewed weapons embargo for Libyan conflictLibya without stable government since rebels toppled and killed Gadafy in 2011Sun Jan 19 2020 - 21:57
Fresh showdown looms in Polish court reform rowSenate rejects Bill which PiS says will stabilise legal systemFri Jan 17 2020 - 19:04
Make-believe major in Swedish army echoes con trick of Friedrich VoigtSecurity breach of fraud’s rise through military reminds of 1906 Köpenick shoemakerFri Jan 17 2020 - 18:14
