German train attack was ‘politically motivated’ - policeIslamic State claims responsibility for assault but investigators have yet to find a direct linkTue Jul 19 2016 - 19:34
Germany: Axe-wielding assailant shot after train rampagePolice shoot 17-year-old Afghan suspect after assault leaves three people seriously injuredTue Jul 19 2016 - 00:06
International reaction: widespread shock at Nice attackBritish authorities have ordered review of security arrangements around big public eventsSat Jul 16 2016 - 01:00
Bayreuth Wagner festival: another year, another walk-outOrganisers find new conductor – but he warns ‘not to expect miracles’ on opening nightSat Jul 16 2016 - 01:00
Theresa May and Angela Merkel: Outsiders who rose to topThe most powerful women in Europe share more than biographical detailsFri Jul 15 2016 - 01:00
Berlin Letter: Squatters, riots and the process of gentrificationUneasy stalemate settles on Berlin street left-wingers see as last stand against capitalismWed Jul 13 2016 - 01:00
Border return would be ‘dangerous’, warns Italian ministerPaolo Gentiloni expresses confidence frontier controls could be avoided in IrelandWed Jul 13 2016 - 01:00
Angela Merkel non-committal on Ireland's Brexit concernsGerman leader says Dublin’s voice ‘will be heard as much as anyone else’s’ in EU talksTue Jul 12 2016 - 14:47
Enda Kenny to voice concerns over Brexit with Angela MerkelItalian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni will meet Charlie Flanagan in Dublin todayTue Jul 12 2016 - 07:17
Polish broadcaster TVP under fire for censoring ObamaUS president’s criticism of country’s democracy turned into praise by state-run stationMon Jul 11 2016 - 18:07
Ireland stresses peace process as Brexit plans move up a gearSeries of meetings on coming weeks to discuss impending negotiationsSat Jul 09 2016 - 01:00
Berlin aware of post-Brexit consequences for Ireland, says Flanagan‘I detect a knowledge and an appreciation of our unique status, and this will form part of the negotiations’Fri Jul 08 2016 - 20:42
Germany brings in ‘No means No’ law for sex offencesRape loophole closed as country struggles with issue of immigrants and sex assaultsThu Jul 07 2016 - 13:05
German investigators raid six Ryanair basesMove is part of inquiry into claims of evasion of tax and social security payments by pilotsWed Jul 06 2016 - 16:49
Major split in Germany’s AfD party over anti-Semitism rowAlternative für Deutschland’s Wolfgang Gedeon accused of relativising the HolocaustTue Jul 05 2016 - 18:35
Derek Scally: Germany signals rethink on Europe post-BrexitGerman finance minister calls for intergovernmental initiatives bypassing BrusselsTue Jul 05 2016 - 15:08
Austrian far-right party gets second tilt at presidencyConstitutional court orders election re-run after irregularities in counting of votesFri Jul 01 2016 - 18:17
Helmut Kohl urges EU not to ‘slam the door’ on BritainFormer German chancellor says Europe should ‘pause for breath’ following Brexit voteThu Jun 30 2016 - 18:40
EU leaders call for practical reforms after Brexit shockTusk: There will be ‘no single market á la carte’ for BritainWed Jun 29 2016 - 11:40
Cameron: UK wants single market, action on immigrationMerkel says no way to avoid Brexit after ‘deep and intensive’ talks in BrusselsWed Jun 29 2016 - 08:19
EU leaders are ready to ‘start the divorce’ with UKMerkel says London should not think it can ‘cherry-pick’ its way back to single marketTue Jun 28 2016 - 20:37
David Cameron faces EU leaders amid Brexit falloutPolice in Britain investigate spate of racist incidents since referendum decisionTue Jun 28 2016 - 11:16
No forgetting past EU gloom as Angela rejigs her ‘Merkel method’German leader expresses understanding that Britain needs time to reorder its affairsTue Jun 28 2016 - 01:00
Berlin, Paris and Rome urge speed and unity among EU leadersHollande warns that uncertainty over UK leaving could lead to ‘irrational behaviour’Mon Jun 27 2016 - 20:27
Berlin: No talks with UK on future until Article 50 triggered‘First Britain registers its exit request in line with Article 50, then we talk’Mon Jun 27 2016 - 13:26
Merkel hoping to ease demands for immediate EU exit of UKCommission president says he wants UK’s divorce papers on his desk ‘immediately’Mon Jun 27 2016 - 08:53
‘Europe is dead . . . long live Europe?’: World media reacts to Brexit‘Bild’ calls for calm while France looks at vote result’s effect on own future in EUSun Jun 26 2016 - 20:14
‘No need to be nasty’ about timeframe for Brexit Angela Merkel saysIn contrast, Britain ordered to get out of EU without delay at meeting of EU founding membersSat Jun 25 2016 - 19:44
‘Germans can’t get enough of Ireland and they can’t get enough of Cecelia Ahern’The filming of ‘Ein Moment fürs Leben’ – aka ‘The Time of My Life’ – in Dublin for ZDF is the latest example of the Irish author’s thriving creative partnership with German TVSat Jun 25 2016 - 06:00
European reaction: Shock and disappointment at BrexitAngela Merkel calls for European unity after after ‘calm and confident’ analysisFri Jun 24 2016 - 13:38
Armed man killed after hostage situation at German cinemaPolice say man shot dead and nobody else injured at facility in ViernheimThu Jun 23 2016 - 19:53
German serial killer nurse murdered at least 33 patients, say policeHospital criticised for providing reference to 39-year-old nurse they suspected of killingThu Jun 23 2016 - 17:13
Volkswagen executives face down angry shareholders at agmGathering told ‘misconduct goes against everything that Volkswagen stands for’Wed Jun 22 2016 - 19:36
German court dismisses challenges to ECB’s bond-buying schemeGerman parliament’s rights not impaired by Outright Monetary Transactions, court rulesWed Jun 22 2016 - 01:00
Europe ‘not in good state’ ahead of Brexit vote – Wolfgang SchäubleFinance minister says Germany’s economy would suffer ‘considerably’ if UK leaves EUWed Jun 22 2016 - 01:00
Derek Scally: Brexit forces rethink of German attitudes to EuropePerhaps Berlin’s greatest fear is Brexit would catalyse resentment towards GermanySat Jun 18 2016 - 01:00
Close Sweden-Norway ties despite EU border dividing themOfficials say ties have remained strong because of unique cross-border agreementsMon Jun 13 2016 - 17:07
Germany warns of consequences of British EU exitWolfgang Schäuble highlights potential risk to stability of Northern Ireland if UK leavesFri Jun 10 2016 - 18:07
Berlin-Ankara row escalates over Armenian genocide resolutionErdogan rails against MPs of Turkish descent with ‘tainted blood’ who backed resolutionThu Jun 09 2016 - 14:55
Far-right Austrian party challenges presidential election resultFreedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer lost election to Green Party rival by 30,863 votesWed Jun 08 2016 - 16:14
Live like a local: BerlinEnjoy good German food, and beer, and take in some people-watchingSat Jun 04 2016 - 03:36
Poland in danger of reverting as PiS party reinterprets democracyThe Law and Order party is taking control in a way that threatens to set the country backSat May 21 2016 - 02:00
Returned Poles bring home optimism from IrelandReturnees find mood heavy in Poland and say living in Ireland made them more positiveSat May 21 2016 - 01:00
Polish national broadcaster turns into propaganda machineTVP cheers on the conservative PiS as direct government control takes its tollThu May 19 2016 - 01:00
Germany to open emissions investigation into OpelMagazine says tests on Astra and Zafira models showed they emitted 11 times legal limit of nitrogen-oxideWed May 18 2016 - 18:40
Austrian presidential debate descends into ‘dishonourable farce’Experimental debate with no moderator backfires as candidates trade insultsMon May 16 2016 - 22:27
Opel to be questioned over diesel emissions claimsReports suggest some cars programmed to operate cleanly only within narrow parametersMon May 16 2016 - 01:00
A Berlin family’s Irish refugeWeekend Read: In 1933, when Nazism made life unbearable for the Jewish Abraham Wyszniak, he fled the German capital – and ended up in Ireland. Recently, his grandchildren returned to the citySat May 14 2016 - 10:20
Challenging times for Ireland’s Data Protection CommissionerFor the second time in two years, the DPC’s critics are asking: who is policing Ireland’s privacy police?Sat May 14 2016 - 08:00
Polish foreign chief on Russia ‘geopolitical game with us’European Union criticisms of conservative reform agenda dismissed by foreign ministerSat May 14 2016 - 02:00
