Berlin

Persistent problem across Europe, even in ‘efficient’ Germany

After years of warning signs, Germany’s weaknesses are now converging into a full‑scale economic reckoning. Can it change direction?

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill visits Berlin’s Virchow Clinic to learn about its pioneering work into endometriosis

Daniel Tatlow-Devally in prison since last year after break-in at German subsidiary of Israel’s largest arms company

Valentino Garavani, Vivienne Westwood and Madame Grès are among designers showcasing in Madrid, Rome, Berlin and elsewhere

From rent to Big Macs, we add up the costs of everyday life in Dublin and other major cities

Irish creatives abroad: Jennifer O’Donnell moved to Germany 11 years ago

Country has in recent years found creative ways and means to silence those with views it finds problematic

Baden-Württemberg is home to Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Bosch

What began as an academic text on the Enlightenment-era philosopher morphed into an epistolary novel that playfully mirrors 21st-century communication

Wild Geese: Denis Madden, Berlin

Director Grant Lee takes Silver Bear for movie featuring Newry actor Valene Kane, with screenplay by Mark O’Halloran

These pronouncements from a Turkish exile would have appeared overly pessimistic a few years ago. Now they seem prescient

I once knew Dublin inside out, but cities are not known for standing still. A new generation of Dubliners owns the city now

From slippery pavements to a fumbling official, winter has become the latest entry under Germany’s myth of efficiency

Engine of Europe faces stiff challenges to revive economy

There’s plenty to spice up a city break across Europe in the first six months of the year

Is the economic order under which we live even capable of providing us with basic necessities?

From shrimp skin in Beijing to chicken livers in Syria and cherry schnapps in Berlin, the quality and value available in other countries are striking

Our correspondent chose an unassuming, family-run restaurant and found a mouth-popping experience

Many German Muslims say they face a new level of hostility in post-October 7th Germany, and a young imam is leading a plan to clean up the city’s mess on New Year’s Day

Once dismissed as obscene, Helga Goetze’s street sermons on sex and pacifism are being reappraised as the city confronts its radical past

European leaders say proposed security guarantees agreed with US include a Ukrainian peacetime army of 800,000 troops and European-led military support force

Failing to produce the goods on huge package of financial aid to Kyiv would be hugely damaging for Europe

Attitudes sour over history of occupation and contemporary security pressures overshadow latest rapprochement

Paris and Berlin latest to reintroduce measure to strengthen forces as US steps back from Continent

Full of misery, and peopled by characters unable to distinguish their true desires, Viola van de Sandt’s debut novel makes for uneasy reading

In the post-pandemic years the club faced rising costs and fewer patrons, especially younger ones

Donegal-born writer Liam Cagney finds meaning, exile and joy on Berlin’s dance floors

For survivors, the installation is about bringing the tragedy and trauma of the attacks to a world where attention has shifted to the human cost of the conflict in Gaza

A new English edition of Shaw’s memoir reveals how she became a household name in Berlin with a children’s classic

It’s striking how many friends in Ireland say privately what they don’t dare say in public, on everything from Kneecap to Michael D Higgins to Hamas

A few years into my Berlin Sunday clubbing routine, I learned I was autistic. Dance is my yoga, my workout, my meditation

Move represents stark reversal of Berlin’s previous scepticism about tapping seized assets

This wasn’t the first time my sister had been violently assaulted by German police at a pro-Palestine protest

Investigation under way into assault on O’Brien who claims police brutality expected in pro-Palestine demonstrations

Irish Berlin-based activist Kitty O’Brien is recovering in hospital following an altercation with a police officer

Video shows Dubliner Kitty O’Brien (25) punched by officer during protest over journalists killed in Gaza

Julia Klöckner has been pursued across Germany by gossip columnists this summer, but is there another agenda afoot?

For Luke Rainey, growing up gay in Portstewart, fashion was an escape