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Derek Scally

Derek Scally

Berlin Correspondent

Derek Scally has written from Berlin since 2000 for the Irish Times. His main focus of interest is German and European politics as well as business and cultural affairs. He is a regular visitor to Warsaw and Vienna to write about Polish and Austrian current affairs. He contributes to Irish and German radio and television and to the Berlin-based foreign policy journal "Internationale Politik".

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US president insists encroachment on privacy is ‘strictly limited’

US president Barack Obama : his 2008 Berlin visit made Mr Obama look like a winner and anchored in German minds the hope that he could right everything they believed had gone wrong in the Bush era. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque
Two ghosts will loom large over Obama’s highly anticipated speech at Brandenberg gate today

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Asmussen seeks end for zombie banks

ECB board member call for a European bank wind-up fund financed by a banking levy

Losing Oskar Lafontaine robs Germany’s Left Party of an experienced campaigner ahead of September’s general election. Photograph: Reuters/Tobias Schwarz
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The top-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in this year’s German general election, Peer Steinbrueck. Photograph: Reuters
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Social Democrat Peer Steinbrück advises elimination of ‘legal tax evasion’ by multinationals

German economists said that ECB bond-buying to stabilise crisis euro countries – over €200 billion and counting – had put the bank in a legal “grey area”
German court considers ECB bond-buying policy

Emergency liquidity to Irish banks was hidden state financing, says economist

The Berlin City Palace, or Stadtschloss, occupied by Wilhelm II until 1918, seen before and after the second World War.
Prussian palace in Berlin rises from the ashes

Germany begins rebuilding of demolished palace to serve as museum for non-European art

Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann and ECB Board member Jörg Asmussen (right) wait for the start of the hearing at the constitutional court in Karlsruhe. Photograph: Uli Deck/Pool/Reuters
EU democracy ‘gone to the dogs’, German court told

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Ireland’s promissory note deal may come back to haunt the European Central Bank (ECB). (Photo: Bloomberg)
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