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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".

Cars driving along a highway in Berlin, Germany. The German Social Democrats (SPD) are proposing a nationwide limit of 120 km/h on all highways. Germany, in contrast to the rest of Europe, still has no speed limit on many portions of its large highways. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Germany stalling on speed limit

Debate on autobahn speeding has run for 40 years and shows no sign of stopping

A slow-acting, addictive, dangerous drug: 200 years of Wagner

He was an opportunistic ego-maniac and his legacy was sullied by Nazism, but after two centuries, Richard Wagner’s music has lost(...)

A woman protests at Berlin’s Barbie ‘dreamhouse’; ‘life in plastic is not fantastic’ says the slogan written on her torso. Photograph: Derek Scally
Inside Barbie’s Berlin Dreamhouse of Horror

Amused parents and confused children looked on as spontaneous protest turned into a violent scuffle with security guards

On the menu: the Company’s production of As You Are Now So Once Were We
Germans queue up for the Full Irish

In Germany, they love Irish storytelling in song and word. Now, at last, they are paying attention to our plays

Google has argued that the automatic suggestions were not a reflection of truth but of user activity. Photograph: Jacques Brinon/Reuters
Google must tidy up search format

Company failed to ensure search did not breach privacy laws, says court

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has confirmed that Berlin could live without treaty change to get the promised European banking union off the ground. Photograph: AFP
Leak reveals no let-up in Berlin austerity plan

An internal chancellery report on reform plans around Europe notes that ‘further room for labour market liberalisation’ exists in (...)

A 10-million mark note from 1923 at the height of the hyper-inflation days of the Weimar Republic. Photograph: iStockphoto
German obsession with inflation is based on myths

Opinion: Separating historical fact from fiction is a thankless task in Germany but one man is trying to do just that

Students throw journals and books onto bonfires in Bebelplatz in 1933
Berlin counts the cost of the Nazis’ cultural crackdown

Memorials to the culling that began in 1933 are reminders of the loss of diversity

French finance minister Pierre Moscovici and his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schäuble, worked hard in Berlin yesterday to play down recent tensions over the pace of austerity measures. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
France given more time to reach budget targets

European Commission to give France two extra years to bring deficit beneath 3 per cent ceiling

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