Bundestag

Whether the Scholz administration can retain political and public support for what is to come depends on finding a compelling narrative of necessity

China’s Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden that conflicts such as Ukraine are in no one’s interests

Ukrainian president calls on country to match words with more decisive deeds

Gerhard Schröder is a long-time friend of Putin and sits on two Russian boards

Ukrainian delegate says ceasefire talks with Russian side on Monday were difficult

Germany and other EU states are breaking taboos with their response to Putin’s aggression

EU to buy arms for Kyiv and aim sanctions at banks, media, air travel and oligarchs

Chancellor Olaf Scholz presents radical rethink of German foreign and energy policy

SPD’s Zimmermann makes comment in advance of Taoiseach’s official visit to Berlin

Jörg Meuthen says AfD’s heart ‘beats very far to the right’ with ‘echoes of totalitarianism’

Far right and left parties have quietly been dropping their hardest eurosceptic policies

New leader takes office as Germany battles Covid-19 surge and faces series of geopolitical challenges

Germany has imposed restrictions on unvaccinated amid Covid surge

Top public health official warns that Germany is heading for ‘a very bad Christmas’

Berlin’s wish for continuity set to collide in Bundestag with calls for change

Centre-right party begins search for third leader in three years

Jörg Meuthen increasingly at odds with other senior figures over direction of far-right party

Analysis: Centre-left SPD wins election with snappy campaign and clear messaging

Angela Merkel’s CDU suffers slump in support, leaving centre-rivals with ‘visible mandate’ to govern

Ruling CDU heads into post-Merkel era with fiasco as support slides eight points

September 26th vote to determine who will succeed Angela Merkel in Europe’s hot seat

Ireland’s approach to its problematic past with religious orders jars with how East Germans took ownership of their shameful secret police files

Macron set to become the uncontested leader of Europe with German chancellor’s exit

What will happen to Germany and the EU after she departs the scene in September?

Initiative to set up dialogue with Russia rebuffed by several leaders in Brussels

Vladislav Surkov exhausts the cliches as the consummate Kremlin backroom operator

Governing party buoyed by Saxony-Anhalt win as Germany prepares for autumn election

Hans-Georg Maassen brings ‘great reset’ views to his Bundestag nomination in Thuringia

Association of medics has removed a ban on the practice from its code of conduct

Berlin Letter: Election candidate must battle rivals in chancellery bid to succeed Merkel

Cantillon: Chancellor lobs responsibility for Wirecard fraud into finance minister’s lap

Government does not bear responsibility for large-scale fraud, Bundestag inquiry hears

Leader of Merkel’s CDU party to head election challenge after Bavarian rival ends bid

Eurosceptical court’s record suggests it revels in brinkmanship in tussles with its own government

Karin Strenz (53) pronounced dead after being brought to University Hospital Limerick

Collapse in vote in regional elections could bode ill for party’s hopes in federal poll

Two MPs from Merkel’s parliamentary bloc resign ahead of important regional elections

London Letter: EU’s Brexit negotiator accused of inflexibility but London’s strategy is unwise

Jan Marsalek disappaeared the day he was fired as details of €3bn fraud emerged

Lockdown gloom is permeated with questions as to process that imposed it