Critics fear a Duda re-election will mark the end of liberal democracy, 30 years after end of communist rule

42% of those in Ischgl found to have antibodies, with vast majority asymptomatic

Shares in Wirecard down 90% in a week after German company files for insolvency

Facebook defends data policy and insists nothing will change for its German users

Federal states unwilling to host holidaymakers from stricken Westphalia

Order against social media giant’s Dublin operation says it abuses market domination

Gütersloh region, with 370,000 people, faces new measures days before official holidays

Ex-head of scandal-hit German fintech company released from custody on €5m bail

Germany facing law and order ‘alarm signal’ following street battles, says minister

Some 7,000 quarantined around meat processing plant at centre of new outbreak

Metropa map shows Ireland connected to Istanbul in idealised supermetro network

Move responds to court ruling on ECB bond-buying

Joseph Ratzinger (93) visiting bedridden older brother, with no return trip scheduled

German leader hopeful multibillion Covid-19 crisis fund can be agreed by member states

People of colour have come forward with stories of random security checks and racial profiling

Live online performance of ‘Isolation’ by Gerard Smyth to take place on Wednesday evening

Murder of Walter Lübcke in 2019 shocked country amid growing violence against politicians

A protest movement sees ‘Corpus Delicti’ as a foretaste of what is to come in a second wave

Germany opens its doors as Spain brings forward reopening by 10 days to June 21st

Andrzej Duda warns Poles to be vigilant against ‘foreign’ attempts to co-opt nation’s identity

Stig Engstrom – who is dead – carried out 1986 assassination, investigators conclude

Charismatic leader was shot dead in 1986 in incident that became nation’s ‘open wound’

Timing coincides with the release of a film on paedophile priests in the Polish church

‘The Swabian housewife has learned to act more like a Swabian SME,’ says academic

German child sex offender (43) is being investigated on suspicion of murder

Sweden and Denmark to open inquiries into coronavirus lockdown strategies

German politicians mull options amid two clashing views of EU jurisprudence

Symbolic addition to dome of Humboldt Forum proves ideologically controversial

Malgorzata Manowska, who has links to ruling PiS party, chosen as court president

Leipzig court ruling opens door to claims from at least 60,000 car owners

Campaigner claims watchdog met Facebook regularly before introduction of GDPR rules

Each Saturday has seen growing numbers defying the ban on public assemblies

Meat processors face €30,000 fines for each employee whose labour rights are violated

Wadowice, near Krakow, birthplace of Karol Wojtyla on May 18th, 1920, draws crowds

Bundesliga return divides opinion in the country while concerns among players remain

The Greens in Germany reached out to sceptics and changed their country’s politics

Saturday’s reopening of borders marks a tentative first step to resuscitate tourism

Poor preparation and volunteer programme are blamed for death rate in old-age homes

German chancellor says it is time to ‘act cleverly’ so the euro can continue to exist

A German television show presented a mash-up of its favourite Drosten/Streeck clips. The music was ‘Who let the Docs out?’

Leaving Cert equivalent should be cancelled due to coronavirus concerns, say students

Legalised brothels have been given no indication when they can reopen for business

‘Sodabrot’ overtakes sourdough to become Germany’s hottest pandemic recipe

Questions of blame and responsibility still dominate most ambivalent day in calendar

German journalist sues over incident alleged to have taken place during 2018 interview

Weeks of political chaos end with ruling PiS announcing June as earliest date for poll

Constitutional court ruling may focus debate on real value of single currency for Germany

Merkel and state leaders agree to open shops and schools as outbreak ‘more or less’ under control

Car lobby wants €6,000 subsidy for buying a hybrid or electric car to be increased to €10,000, and extended to all car types

Court finds bond-buying programme does not respect ‘principle of proportionality’

Demonstrators face off with police amid fears of a second wave of Covid-19

The German city has become Europe’s unofficial hotspot for research into the songbird

Mayor causes uproar over comments about wasting resources on at-risk Germans

Berlin-Brandenburg gets permission for Halloween opening 14 years after construction began

As state politicians flex their federal muscles, public grappling with 16 different sets of face mask rules

Decision to support app that will itself store key data marks U-turn after privacy concerns

Brendan Bourke and four friends contracted coronavirus while in Ischgl resort in Austria

Chancellor supports gradual easing of restrictions but fears public complacency

Claim for 5,000 people who tested positive says private gain was prioritised over public health

Merkel ready to show solidarity but Italy’s proposals raise the hackles of German voters

Berlin Letter: German chancellor has begun delicate manoeuvres amid coronavirus crisis

Chancellor says Germany at the start of the pandemic and ‘not over the hill’

As small shops and certain schools re-open in Germany, places of worship remain closed

Claim Warsaw statistics of about 1,000 abortions yearly downplay ‘reality’ of 150,000

Shops with floor space up to 800sq m can reopen next Monday, Merkel announces

Chancellor under increasing pressure to outline exit strategy on lockdown measures

Tradition that arose in Oberammergau due to one plague is disrupted by another

Germany has mobilised every reserve and cranked up every economic generator to insulate business from worst economic shocks

Stockholm approaching Covid-19 control more liberally than European neighbours

Maha Vajiralongkorn was given permission to self-isolate with a 20-member harem in Bavaria

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz says ‘resurrection after Easter’ is possible

Some are suggesting CDU should give way in next year’s elections to its Bavarian sister party the CSU and its leader Markus Söder

Some doctors are concerned that few will heed the golden rules of wearing a mask

Supreme court ruling gives clear signal to survivors and religious for future cases

Berlin Letter: A piano is better than passive aggression for reinforcing new social rules

Country’s death toll is below global average and intensive care bed numbers are well above

‘We checked if we were allowed, then got straight to work’ says head of wardrobe

Engineering giant says automated system will boost country’s already high test rate

‘No blueprint’ as spending boosted to aid economy and healthcare amid Covid-19 crisis

Scandinavian state registers more than 2,500 cases by Wednesday and 42 fatalities

Berlin determined to use ‘all we have’ to limit looming economic crisis

German chancellor had earlier announced tighter measures on public gatherings

Two-week ban followed by southwestern state Saarland

Hundreds of cases across Europe linked to ‘party machine’ on Austrian slopes of Ishgl

Police in Germany’s major cities are hard-pressed to tackle impromptu parties in parks

‘This is serious. Take it seriously,’ German chancellor says in rare broadcast to nation

Berlin Letter: ‘At times like this you need to diversify ... gold is always a safe investment’

Donald Trump is reportedly trying to gain exclusive access to German firm’s reseach

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael must heed the lessons of Germany’s 15-year coalition

Munich security conference told US, China and Russia are sharing a short-sighted goal

Von der Leyen denies squandering hundreds of millions as German defence minister

Steinmeier warns on efforts to ‘offset the dead of Dresden with the dead of Auschwitz’

Senior party officials question outgoing leader’s timetable for appointing successor

Search for leader underway after Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer resigns amid pressure from fringes

Resignation of CDU leader after 14 months in role triggers speculation about snap election

Kramp-Karrenbauer resigns as CDU leader triggers debate about party divisions

German chancellor’s plan to stay in office until fourth term ends next year is now in doubt

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will not seek German chancellorship after regional election debacle

Resignations follow Thuringia deal with extremists and Kramp-Karrenbauer is tainted