
Armin Laschet becomes leader of Angela Merkel’s CDU party
- Europe
- January 16, 2021, 11:20
Continuity candidate wins run-off vote against conservative-liberal rival Friedrich Merz

Who has what it takes to become the next German chancellor?
- Europe
- January 15, 2021, 19:09
Battle for CDU leadership also a popularity contest for chance to succeed Angela Merkel

Merkel urges new restrictions amid German alarm on Irish infection rates
- Europe
- January 15, 2021, 17:41
Ireland’s coronavirus experience described as a ‘cautionary tale’ for policymakers

CDU leadership race goes online in latest bid to move past Merkel
- Europe
- January 15, 2021, 01:00
Party grandee Armin Laschet is the frontrunner, but the outcome is far from clear

Schrems criticises Irish data regulator after Facebook case breakthrough
- Technology
- January 13, 2021, 20:00
Privacy campaigner still awaiting response to complaint submited to DPC in 2013

Germany’s hairdressers cry foul over soccer players’ miraculous lockdown cuts
- Europe
- January 13, 2021, 19:17
A month after salons were ordered shut, football haircuts spark furious response

Polish court rejects complaint against remarks about Varadkar
- Crime & Law
- January 12, 2021, 18:23
Complainants says court ‘stated plainly’ that pro-life campaigner’s comment was ‘unacceptable’

German Covid vaccine rollout gathers pace – and prompts ethical debate
- Europe
- January 12, 2021, 18:05
Possibility of obligatory jabs for medical, care staff raised amid high vaccine scepticism

Germany makes last push to purge Nazi-era anti-Semitic laws
- Europe
- January 11, 2021, 19:27
Surprising remnants include name-change provision with basis in Nuremberg Laws

Washington riot reminds Germans of century-old myth
- Europe
- January 9, 2021, 01:00
Stolen election theory as vague and elastic for Trump supporters’ needs as the stab-in-the-back myth that facilitated Hitler’s ris(...)

Covid-19: Germany imposes new rules on travel from Ireland
- Europe
- January 7, 2021, 19:24
Air passengers from Ireland will be refused entry without a negative Covid test result

Russia sees US at ‘rock bottom’ as allies condemn Washington violence
- Europe
- January 7, 2021, 17:51
Moscow lambasts ‘archaic’ American democracy while Merkel ‘furious’ at scenes

Row brews in Germany’s ruling coalition over roll-out of Covid-19 vaccine
- Europe
- January 5, 2021, 19:48
SPD demanding to know why country is not getting more doses of BioNTech vaccine

Lockdowns extended across Europe amid sustained high infection rates
- Europe
- January 4, 2021, 19:04
Fumbled start to vaccination in Germany has triggered blame-game among officials in Berlin and the state capitals

Fabled Nazi-era brothel Salon Kitty finds new life
- Europe
- December 30, 2020, 01:00
Berlin Letter: New book about alleged Nazi collaborator sparks interest of Netflix

German town lures back Polish emigrants from Brexit Britain
- Europe
- December 27, 2020, 20:00
With its dwindling population, Görlitz seeks to exploit an unexpected opportunity

German crematorium struggles with Covid body backlog
- Europe
- December 23, 2020, 14:45
Eastern city of Zittau a virus hotspot as nation records a record 962 coronavirus deaths in 24 hour period

Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine likely to be effective against UK mutation
- Health & Pharma
- December 22, 2020, 19:45
‘The immune response elicited by our vaccine has always inactivated all forms of the virus’ says BioNTech CEO

Germany: Man who attacked synagogue convicted of murder
- Europe
- December 21, 2020, 11:25
Stephan Balliet broadcasted attack in city of Halle live on a popular gaming site

Humboldt Forum opens doors amid ongoing pandemic confusion
- Europe
- December 19, 2020, 05:01
Walking around the building is a remarkable experience, it’s hard to know where to begin

Swedish monarch suggests state’s Covid-19 strategy a failure
- Europe
- December 17, 2020, 18:16
‘A large number have died ... it is a traumatic experience not to be able to say a warm goodbye’

Austrians stay away from Covid-19 mass test programme
- Europe
- December 16, 2020, 17:03
Tests had identified an additional 4,200 cases with half showing no symptoms

Germans throng shops ahead of pre-Christmas lockdown
- Europe
- December 14, 2020, 11:42
Fears that rush before non-essential shops close on Wednesday may increase infections

Small-state politics undermines response to Covid in Germany
- Europe
- December 13, 2020, 16:00
Bad organisation has plunged the country into a hard Christmas lockdown as daily death rates top 600

German stores brace for stampede as non-essential shops close from Wednesday
- Europe
- December 13, 2020, 10:21
State leaders agree lightning lockdown of schools and shops until January 10th

Final effort on Brexit deal amid growing pessimism over prospects
- Europe
- December 12, 2020, 04:28
Government preparing special measures to support Irish food exporters

Coveney confident the EU and UK can avert failure of trade talks
- Europe
- December 11, 2020, 18:45
Minister urges sides to focus on common ground, not differences

Germany facing pre-Christmas lockdown as Covid-19 cases soar
- Europe
- December 11, 2020, 12:43
State leaders to hold emergency meeting on Sunday with severe restrictions on way

Merkel heads into final years as indispensable leader without vision
- Europe
- December 9, 2020, 19:00
Critics point to chancellor’s short-term approach to crises and lack of road map for EU

New Berlin U-Bahn line salvages German engineering reputation
- Europe
- December 8, 2020, 20:00
Giant mechanical caterpillar key to elaborate project that added six stations to underground

Night trains to make comeback on European network
- Transport & Tourism
- December 8, 2020, 18:24
Intercity rail links seen as rival to airlines

Germany facing renewed lockdown as Covid-19 numbers stall
- Europe
- December 7, 2020, 18:31
Five-week partial lockdown seen as failure for having stabilised but not cut infections

German churches keep the Christmas music playing on otherwise silent nights
- Europe
- December 5, 2020, 01:00
Church music has proven a lifeline for many Germans as a trying year draws to a close

Austria tightens borders and imposes ski restrictions for Christmas
- Europe
- December 3, 2020, 19:41
Stricter measures come amid figures showing record level of 2,431 deaths in one week

German town of Trier in mourning after SUV driver kills five
- Europe
- December 2, 2020, 09:26
Suspect (51) appears before judge after car mowed down pedestrians, with baby among dead

Germany: Man arrested after car ploughs through city street, killing at least five
- Europe
- December 1, 2020, 15:26
Local man with no terrorist links questioned, as at least 15 injured in western city of Trier

Frayed nerves in Germany as political unity over Covid-19 fragments
- Europe
- November 30, 2020, 18:09
Regions increasingly diverge on rules ahead of Christmas as ‘coronabsurdities’ mount

Will Europe shut down its ski resorts this winter?
- Europe
- November 28, 2020, 05:00
Germany, France and Italy want Europe’s pistes to stay shut. Austria says no

Austria bids farewell to Fucking after a millennium of misunderstandings
- Europe
- November 27, 2020, 15:23
Village of 100 residents near Salzburg – a modern selfie hell – to be renamed Fugging

German researchers claim risk of Covid transmission at live classical music is manageable
- Europe
- November 26, 2020, 20:00
Many wind instruments have a design that traps and condenses aerosols internally

Stand-off in Europe over plan to ban ski season due to Covid-19
- Europe
- November 26, 2020, 17:41
Austria rejects proposals by Germany, France and Italy to postpone ski season

Germany extends partial lockdown to allow 10-day Christmas amnesty
- Europe
- November 25, 2020, 21:00
Merkel meets regional leaders as country registers highest daily death toll of 410

Pragmatism pushes Greens towards power in Germany
- Europe
- November 24, 2020, 19:00
Some 800 delegates from party’s rival wings present united front for looming election battle

Germans push back against anti-mask Nazi resistance comparisons
- Europe
- November 23, 2020, 20:24
Opponents of Covid-19 restrictions embrace idea of fighting totalitarian German state

Bundestag MPs turn on AfD after parliamentary provocation
- Europe
- November 20, 2020, 20:41
Debate sparked as chamber agitators turn out to be invited guests of far-right politician

Teacher suspected of eating man he met in online chat forum is remanded in custody
- Europe
- November 20, 2020, 15:48
Police raided apartment and found freezer with traces of human blood and a bone saw

Catholic church in Germany under pressure on abuse reports
- Europe
- November 19, 2020, 19:30
Aachen hierarchy more receptive to account of systemic failures than Cologne peers

Angela Merkel put on trial in German climate change drama set in 2034
- Europe
- November 19, 2020, 01:00
TV film features an 80-year-old former chancellor accused of environment failures

Police deploy water cannon to disperse Covid-19 protest in Berlin
- Europe
- November 18, 2020, 13:09
About 10,000 take part in demonstration against coronavirus-related restrictions

Berlin’s rent cap could fall victim to law of unintended consequences
- Europe
- November 18, 2020, 01:00
Berlin Letter: Rapidly shrinking rental market may hit poorer renters hardest

German police swoop on suspected jewel thieves
- Europe
- November 17, 2020, 17:15
Heist in Dresden last year saw 94 priceless pieces of jewellery stolen from Green Vault

Austria to launch mass testing as tight lockdown resumes
- Europe
- November 16, 2020, 20:03
Sebastian Kurz says country will shut down almost completely until December 6th

Five on trial in Germany accused of operating paedophile ring
- Europe
- November 12, 2020, 18:45
Boys allegedly drugged with ecstasy and knock-out drops for often lengthy abuse

Polish bishops ask Rome to investigate former papal secretary
- Europe
- November 11, 2020, 18:32
Any investigation would raise to at least 16 the number of clerics undergoing or facing canonical investigations in Rome

Germans mourn Carnival cancellation amid Covid-19 fears
- Europe
- November 10, 2020, 18:31
Black day for Cologne: ‘This time there will be no celebrating, no singing and no dancing’

Merkel expresses hope Biden will revive ‘treasure’ of transatlantic ties
- Europe
- November 9, 2020, 18:41
US expects more from EU ‘and rightly so’, German chancellor says

Covid vaccine a ‘victory for innovation’, says German company developing drug
- Health & Pharma
- November 9, 2020, 18:40
BioNTech’s work could provide a major breakthrough in the fight against the pandemic

Denmark locks down North Jutland after Covid-19 mutation in mink farms
- Europe
- November 6, 2020, 14:39
Prime minister announces new restrictions affecting 280,000 people, and has ordered the cull of millions of mink on farms

Germany adopts loose lockdown despite record-breaking Covid-19 cases
- Europe
- November 5, 2020, 17:27
Schools, hairdressers and shops remain open in ‘lockdown lite’ as testing hits capacity

Polish government stalls publication of controversial abortion Bill
- Europe
- November 4, 2020, 18:12
Conservative Law and Justice party and its partners alarmed by burgeoning protests

Austrian anti-terrorism agency ignored warnings on Vienna gunman
- Europe
- November 4, 2020, 18:08
Austria’s interior minister says Slovakia alerted BVT to attempt to buy ammunition

Terror will not divide Austria, chancellor says in wake of Vienna attack
- Europe
- November 3, 2020, 07:29
Four killed and 17 injured in shooting spree by 20-year-old Islamic State supporter

Vienna: At least two dead, several injured in ‘terror attack’ in city
- Europe
- November 2, 2020, 20:13
Manhunt under way after shooting takes place at six locations in Austrian capital

Row over unpublished report on Cologne clerical sex abuse cover-up
- Europe
- November 2, 2020, 17:36
Report falls victim to legal claims and a power battle among two church camps

Missing Wirecard executive could be Austrian spy, prosecutors say
- Financial Services
- October 30, 2020, 17:43
Jan Marsalek disappaeared the day he was fired as details of €3bn fraud emerged

Poland braced for violent protests over abortion restrictions
- Europe
- October 30, 2020, 17:31
Polish women’s groups prepare to face off against police and neo-fascists as rallies continue

Merkel prepares Germans for ‘hard winter’ and second lockdown
- Europe
- October 29, 2020, 19:39
Bundestag opposition warns of ‘crisis of trust’ in government with bars, restaurants to close

Berlin’s new airport eyes Halloween opening after seven years of horrors
- US
- October 29, 2020, 19:00
BER is nine years late, wildly over budget and opening during a pandemic

Germany to impose month-long partial lockdown from Monday
- Europe
- October 28, 2020, 19:02
‘We are in a new situation we may soon no longer be able to master’ warns finance minister

Polish leader urges supporters to defend church, state against pro-choice ‘nihilists’
- Europe
- October 28, 2020, 15:59
Deputy PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski insists protesters a threat to public order, Polish values

CDU dismisses claims of leadership intrigue
- Europe
- October 27, 2020, 19:14
Merz sees postponed party conference as part of campaign to give rivals time to boost support

Warsaw braced for further protests after anti-abortion ruling
- Europe
- October 23, 2020, 18:14
Abortions now legal only in cases of rape, incest or threat to the mother’s health

Angela Merkel’s party in a tizzy as it struggles to appoint a new leader
- Europe
- October 23, 2020, 18:05
Coronavirus has hobbled the CDU’s long-running efforts to reach a decision

‘I will shoot you’: German politicians hit with Covid hate mail
- Europe
- October 22, 2020, 17:02
Restrictions devised to protect public health draw stream of insults from furious citizens

Schäuble demands that Bundestag reclaim Covid-19 initiative
- Europe
- October 21, 2020, 16:31
German MPs urged to take back control of Covid legislation rather than rubberstamp extension of emergency provisions enacted in Ma(...)

Berlin police have no motive for worst case of art vandalism in post-war Germany
- Europe
- October 21, 2020, 11:43
Attack on at least 63 artworks took place in three museums in Museum Island complex

Nothing's sacred: 'INRI' crucifix legend trademarked by T-shirt visionary
- Europe
- October 21, 2020, 01:00
Werner Lustig is optimistic there is money to be made from 2,000-year-old Roman insult

Merkel snubs German state leaders in direct Covid-19 appeal
- Europe
- October 19, 2020, 19:10
Diminishing political unity contributing to public fatigue with restrictions, experts fear

German church rehabilitates disgraced Nazi-era pastor
- Europe
- October 5, 2020, 18:04
Friedrich Klein stripped of ordination rights in 1943 in response to Nazi military court conviction

Derek Scally: Some home thoughts from Berlin on Covid-19
- Opinion
- October 5, 2020, 00:48
I’m struck by how many of my friends at home feel that anxious and bitter people are setting the pandemic agenda

Reunited Germany, 30 years on: ‘We have a permanent hullabaloo’
- Europe
- October 3, 2020, 05:00
Three decades ago 63 million West Germans and 16 million East Germans reunited

Swiss bank ordered to pay compensation for missing East German millions
- Europe
- October 2, 2020, 16:47
Subsidiary of Julius Bär bank helped hide cash for ruling party in state’s dying days

Alexei Navalny blames Vladimir Putin for poison attack
- Europe
- October 1, 2020, 16:35
Politician says he will return home to Russia in first interview since regaining consciousness

Polish government hits back at letter of support for LGBTI community
- Europe
- September 29, 2020, 19:23
Letter signed by 50 ambassadors calls for tolerance as ruling party ramps up rhetoric

Coronavirus: Vienna begins ‘cluster buster’ bus service to test schoolchildren
- Europe
- September 28, 2020, 19:08
Fleet of blue buses with medical staff to visit schools, using newly developed rapid test

AfD fires spokesman who favours ‘shooting or gassing’ migrants
- Europe
- September 28, 2020, 18:26
German far-right party’s ‘fascist’ Christian Lüth says view representative of AfD seniors

‘The arts in Ireland are a luxury – in Germany they’re a necessity’
- Culture
- September 26, 2020, 06:00
While the Irish arts sector remains largely shut down, Germany is prioritising the unlocking of culture

Covid-19: How Asian countries got contact-tracing right while European states are struggling
- Europe
- September 25, 2020, 11:40
Japan and South Korea trace beyond 48 hours to establish where the sick person caught the virus

Germany declares Dublin a Covid-19 risk area because of high number of cases
- Europe
- September 23, 2020, 13:30
Arrivals from Dublin required to take a coronavirus test within 10 days and self-isolate until they receive negative result

Varadkar notes ‘strong solidarity’ from EU ministers on Irish Brexit concerns
- Politics
- September 22, 2020, 00:00
Tánaiste concerned that extremists using pandemic to rally support for conspiracy theories

Berlin exhibition offers a global audience a window into modern Irish life
- Art & Design
- September 19, 2020, 17:36
The work in Ireland in Frame provides lessons for a Republic in the grip of a pandemic

Animal rights row endangers Poland's conservative coalition
- Europe
- September 18, 2020, 18:20
Junior coalition partners vote against PiS Bills restricting ritual slaughter and fur trade

Aldi empire wracked by family feud
- Retail & Services
- September 18, 2020, 11:08
Grandson of founder accuses mother and sisters of defrauding company

‘It is serious once more’: Austria announces strict coronavirus restrictions
- Europe
- September 17, 2020, 18:40
Germany, which is also seeing a spike in cases, declares Vienna a Covid-19 risk zone

German police investigate officers sharing Nazi images
- Europe
- September 16, 2020, 20:26
Officers in North Rhine-Westphalia face charges of incitement to hatred

Germany to take in 1,500 Moria camp migrants after fire
- Europe
- September 15, 2020, 19:25
Plan divides public opinion and generates tension inside Merkel’s ruling CDU party

Lagerfeld parents were Nazi Party members, new biography reveals
- Europe
- September 15, 2020, 16:17
Celebrated fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld had guarded his family history closely

‘Deutschland rocks’ but not if you’re BMW
- Manufacturing
- September 12, 2020, 07:26
Elon Musk’s visit to new Tesla ‘Gigafactory’ underlines growing crisis in German car industry

Donohoe calls for ‘unprecedented European solutions’ to Covid crisis
- Economy
- September 11, 2020, 13:20
Eurogroup president wants return to budgetary and fiscal normality