Germany

Airline says reductions are not due to Middle East crisis

Will the State’s sovereign wealth fund follow Germany’s example as defence spending rises?

Consuming the contents of jars could be life-threatening, baby food brand says

Irish package hardly seems ‘paltry’

Micheál Martin and Friedrich Merz discuss impact of rising energy prices and the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine

Wholesale energy prices in Spain are among the cheapest in Europe but are surging elsewhere

Ireland offers more generous time off than most countries, but low level of financial support means many parents cannot afford to take it

Britain introduced no measures for the current fuel crisis but has not reversed the 6 cent cut in excise from 2022

Persistent problem across Europe, even in ‘efficient’ Germany

Announcing the temporary measures, Friedrich Merz said the state ‘cannot compensate for every market event’

Want to release stress? Try primal screaming at an adventure park. Just don’t bring the kids

Crowd warned of growing threats to democracy

Deepening rift within Nato fuels fears Trump could use Iran war as pretext to scale back US commitment to Europe’s defence

One price, home and away: from a Norwegian chalet in the mountains to a cottage in Tallanstown

Joint statement welcomes truce and urges ‘quick progress towards a substantive negotiated settlement’

Nazi regime ‘abused’ rising star as a glittering, musical distraction from its mass-murder machine, suggests historian

Jürgen Habermas insisted that ‘rearmament is the existential self-assertion of an EU that can no longer count on the protection of the US’

Chancellor’s latest verbal slip triggers political backlash and reignites Germany’s fraught migration debate

Representative group seeking recognition of unacknowledged survivors, statutory supports and fair compensation scheme

Actress says she found her secret online abuser: her now ex-husband. The account, disputed by him, has spurred outrage and parliamentary debates

Merz’s caution over Middle East deployment reopens old rifts with US and hands fresh ammunition to Germany’s populist right

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

Authorities set the tone for good etiquette

Vessel, named Arne, regularly transports alumina from Co Limerick’s Aughinish plant to St Petersburg

Four hundred clocks from the Black Forest in Germany will now be permanent part of Museum of Time exhibition

Fr Edward Flanagan, born in 1886, has passed the second of four steps to canonisation

Slump in Social Democratic Party support highlights growing backing for far-right AfD

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

Bullied as a boy, he was also attuned to those who were excluded from society

The country’s ageing population is growing more isolated as mass emigration, inflation and fuel shortages leave older citizens struggling to cope

With language orals, there is a lot of information to remember before you even greet the examiner

Japan and Australia have no plans to send ship as US president says Nato faces ‘very bad’ future if members fail to assist

The German philosopher, who has died aged 96, was young enough to carry no culpability for the Nazi era yet old enough to carry lifelong scars

German chancellor Friedrich Merz described him as ‘one of the most significant thinkers of our time’

A Rhineland dream transplanted to the Midwest, Hermann offers European architecture, easygoing days and a deep sense of place

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

While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’

But smaller unions accuse larger rival of aggressive tone and retrograde stance with management