Surge in support for far-right AfD leaves young woman from a village in former East Germany ‘very, very afraid’

Three decades after the chaos of the Swiss city’s ‘Needle Park’, supervised drug use and state-backed heroin treatment have cut harm, but crack has posed new challenges

Daniel Tatlow-Devally and four others charged with trespassing and an estimated €1m in criminal damage

Extradited neo-Nazi Marla-Svenja Liebich faces jail in Saxony as regional governments push to tighten self-identification legislation

An idea to make books look a bit more used, once jokingly proposed by one Myles na gCopaleen, has been made real in German capital

Up to 70,000 job losses likely as German carmaker considers €30bn cost-cutting programme

Local media reports victims received stab wounds during incident in Schongau near Munich

Country’s political leaders yet to have an awkward conversation with their own voters

Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts

Interpol issues ‘red notice’ for Anastasiia Berezovska (39), a Germany-based explosive expert

Party conference is marked by police clashes with protesters outside the venue

Protests planned in Erfurt where delegates will celebrate party’s rise to become the country’s most popular political force

Chancellor hopes reforms will kick-start the economy. Critics say they don’t go far enough

Elements of the piece are surprising – not least her choice of a previously-unknown portrait artist

Whether soccer or rail, many see a wider malaise gripping Germany