Germany calls Turkish president’s Nazi comparisons ‘absurd’Row comes as German mayors cancel rallies over appearances by Turkish ministersTue Mar 07 2017 - 08:49
Germany’s SPD hopes to lure older voters with €1bn welfare reformCentre-left party to fix past ‘mistakes’, including dole payments to older workersMon Mar 06 2017 - 19:56
New magazine channels revival in German conservative angerJournalist behind venture says magazine a backlash against political paternalismSat Mar 04 2017 - 02:00
German and Turkey in war of words over political ralliesPresident Joachim Gauck questions Turkey’s democratic credentials in escalating rowFri Mar 03 2017 - 17:52
Dresden dementia stalled by revival of East German memoriesResults of ‘reminiscence therapy’ have exceeded expectations in senior residenceThu Mar 02 2017 - 20:41
Berlin-Ankara diplomatic strain grows after Germany cancels ralliesForeign minister says Turkish visitors are welcome but electioneering events are notThu Mar 02 2017 - 20:25
Germany’s Martin Schulz rallies his troops in beer tentSPD leader’s Ash Wednesday address in Bavaria delights drinkersWed Mar 01 2017 - 18:00
Berlin outlaws Islamic State mosque after police raidsFussilet 33 mosque was visited by Anis Amri hours before Christmas market truck attackTue Feb 28 2017 - 21:39
Journalist’s arrest heightens Berlin-Ankara tensionsChancellor Angela Merkel criticised the move as ‘disproportionate . . . bitter and disappointing’Tue Feb 28 2017 - 20:19
Police take on Islamophobic trolls after car attack in HeidelbergTwitter trolls fabricate refugee connection after German driver kills pedestrianMon Feb 27 2017 - 18:07
Drivers in high-speed car race in Berlin get life sentencesRace involving two men on city boulevard ended in crash in which motorist was killedMon Feb 27 2017 - 18:01
Martin Schulz: meet the anti-Angela MerkelMartin Schulz has engineered Germany’s biggest political upset in years – and could now challenge Merkel’s grip on the chancellorshipSat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
Berlin picks up the pace of deportationsNew rules allow for expedited deportations of applicants viewed as a security threatFri Feb 24 2017 - 15:56
United Ireland should guarantee North access to EU, says KennyCall for Brexit deal to follow German example on unification ‘were it to occur’Fri Feb 24 2017 - 01:00
Enda Kenny calls for Brexit deal to include united Ireland provision‘The Good Friday agreement is like a poem, it speaks for itself’ – Jean Claude JunckerThu Feb 23 2017 - 17:06
Greece to need no more loans from mid-2018, says bailout chiefMerkel and Lagarde agree Greece needs ‘greater flexibility’ on budget targetsWed Feb 22 2017 - 17:47
German Bundestag leader warns on Brexit special pleadingNorbert Lammert: ‘Everyone has their own interests that are important to them’Wed Feb 22 2017 - 01:00
Martin Schulz vows to roll back Schröder-era reformsCandidate for German chancellor pulls SPD party to neck-and-neck with Merkel’s CDUMon Feb 20 2017 - 17:56
Critics praise Colm Tóibín’s film debut ‘Return to Montauk’Collaboration with Schlöndorff in running for Golden Bear at Berlin Film FestivalFri Feb 17 2017 - 20:59
Tillerson promises conditional US co-operation with RussiaDonald Trump’s secretary of state says Russia expected to honour Ukraine peace dealThu Feb 16 2017 - 19:48
‘I knew nothing’ of German spying on allies, Angela Merkel tells inquiryChancellor the final witness in three-year parliamentary probe into whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks about surveillance by the US National Security AgencyThu Feb 16 2017 - 19:18
Merkel presses Tunisia on taking back failed asylum-seekersChancellor and Tunisian leader seek common ground while visiting market attack siteTue Feb 14 2017 - 17:18
German far-right AfD split over move to expel provocative figureRegional leader Höcke calls process of coming to terms with fascist past ‘silly’Mon Feb 13 2017 - 16:43
Germany must embrace role as anchor, says president SteinmeierCountry can shake off post-war insecurity and ‘give others courage’, says Social DemocratSun Feb 12 2017 - 19:43
In Poland, ‘alternative facts’ provide a new national narrativeJaroslaw Kaczynski endorses ideological view that the real world is ‘very brutal’Sat Feb 11 2017 - 01:00
Art installation spurs tension ahead of Dresden 1945 memorialSyrian-German artist evokes Aleppo - but far-right says work overshadows WWII deadFri Feb 10 2017 - 19:00
Kenny lauds Ireland’s Polish for playing part in recoveryBrexit dominates Taoiseach’s visit to Poland along with bilateral trade valued at €3bnThu Feb 09 2017 - 16:03
Scope of Garda whistleblower inquiry may be widenedTaoiseach: ‘You cannot have a country if everyone against whom allegations are made has to step aside’Thu Feb 09 2017 - 13:08
Enda Kenny keen to find ally in Brexit talks during Warsaw visitPoland’s close ties to Ireland emphasised over differences on EU treaty changeThu Feb 09 2017 - 01:00
Polish government stresses interest in close ties to GermanyOn Warsaw visit, Merkel voices concerns over rule of law under Law and Justice partyTue Feb 07 2017 - 18:47
Merkel agrees deal with Bavarian allies ahead of electionGerman chancellor predicts ‘the most difficult election that I have experienced to date’Mon Feb 06 2017 - 19:59
Syrian refugee sues Facebook over terrorist postsInjunction sought against social media firm and users who uploaded fake claimsMon Feb 06 2017 - 19:39
Is White House correct to accuse Germany of gaming the euro?Berlin refutes Trump camp suggestion it may be manipulating euro for national gainSat Feb 04 2017 - 11:00
How Ireland failed refugees from Nazi GermanyJews fleeing Hitler faced, in Dublin, a government that often saw them as an unwelcome burden, according to new researchSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
‘New kids on the block’ meet as Berlin reaches out to WashingtonForeign minister Sigmar Gabriel stresses equal rights on Library of Congress visitFri Feb 03 2017 - 19:45
Merkel urges respect for freedom of opinion in TurkeyGerman chancellor stresses importance of democratic opposition during visit to AnkaraThu Feb 02 2017 - 16:54
As the world flirts with disaster, Germany puts its cash in cultureThe Barberini Museum in Postsdam is the latest venue in a stunning list of new concert halls and museumsTue Jan 31 2017 - 05:00
Merkel reminds Trump of US Geneva Convention obligationsBerlin has vowed to examine consequence of Trump’s executive order for people with dual US-German citizenshipMon Jan 30 2017 - 01:00
Germany’s Martin Schulz looks to woo ‘people who keep the lights on’New SPD leader promises to restore ‘fairness’ as he gets ready to take on MerkelSun Jan 29 2017 - 19:10
Will Trump shock drive Germany back into arms of Merkel?Hitler anniversary sees US president walk similar line between leadership, seduction, entrapmentSat Jan 28 2017 - 06:00
Germany contemplates horror as it recalls HolocaustHistorians point to facts as some draw parallels between Donald Trump and HitlerFri Jan 27 2017 - 17:00
New Austrian president warns of growing EU populist movementsFormer Green leader Alexander Van der Bellen defeated far-right candidateThu Jan 26 2017 - 18:21
'His house was always filled with children but as a teenager I shrugged it off'‘It wasn’t just priests or politicians who kept Catholic Ireland alive. It was also us, the Irish people’Thu Jan 26 2017 - 06:00
Martin Schulz appointed SPD leader to challenge Angela MerkelFormer European Parliament president succeeds Sigmar Gabriel after resignationWed Jan 25 2017 - 17:00
Three for court in Sweden over Facebook Live ‘gang-rape’20,000 people are members of group where stream was broadcast online on SundayWed Jan 25 2017 - 11:17
Berlin airport fails to take off after 20 years in the planningBerlin Letter: Berlin Brandenburg International Airport has hit repeated obstaclesWed Jan 25 2017 - 01:00
Shock in Germany as Schulz set to take on Merkel in electionSPD leader Sigmar Gabriel quits, proposing ex-European Parliament head as successorTue Jan 24 2017 - 18:48
Merkel to take a wait-and-see approach to TrumpGerman leader sends senior officials to New York to sound out the Trump teamSun Jan 22 2017 - 20:17
Just don’t call it the dead zoo: Irish man’s vision for Munich museumFrom Dublin’s Science Gallery to director of the Biotopia natural history centre in BavariaSat Jan 21 2017 - 06:00
Europe’s far-right parties plan to show united front in KoblenzMarine Le Pen and Geert Wilders among leaders attending event hosted by AfDSat Jan 21 2017 - 03:00
