From France to the UK, governments across the globe are scrambling to take a range of measures to cushion consumers from increasing energy costs

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

Crowd warned of growing threats to democracy

Tipperary man (46) was involved in collision with car near Innsbruck

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

Jacques Tilly given eight-year term – in absentia – for offending religious feelings and spreading false information about Russian forces

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

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

Both leftist ‘red grouping’ and right-wing blue camp fell short of the 90 seats needed for a majority

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

Mette-Marit says Norwegian royal family is in ‘very challenging situation’ due to revelations as well as rape charges against her son