Espionage, state secrets and foreign agents: the case engulfing former head of Germany’s intelligence reads like a spy thriller

August Hanning served as president of federal intelligence service from 1998 to 2005

Far-right party’s election manager Tobias Rausch elected to key role on 48 votes, with 29 opposing and five abstentions

Even with super-premium prices and a cost-of-living crisis, visitors drank a record 6.7m litres

Friedrich Merz pledged €1bn in military aid and said his ⁠visit ‘demonstrates ​that we will not be intimidated’

Europe’s industrial base is weakening while support for the far right is growing

Travelling around Nazi Germany, he wrote presciently about war and found inspiration for Waiting for Godot

After missteps with the first generation of ID cars, Volkswagen goes back to basics with an electric Polo that majors on space, comfort and the fundamentals of driving

Germany and five other countries say the bloc’s proposed €1.9 trillion budget must be reduced to secure their backing

Looking at the list of solar farm projects, one thing stands out: an absence of farmers

Passengers arriving in Amsterdam from Tel Aviv say Dutch customs searched luggage for goods from West Bank settlements

Sergey Lavrov says Moscow has regular talks with Trump administration, which describes conflict as ‘Biden’s war, not our war’

Hendrik Holt, who went on the run last month, witnessed Irish company filing made in April

Italy pioneered such an initiative a decade ago; data suggests book sales and visits to cinemas and concerts rose

If Germany tells us anything it is that this is the Irish moment – but how long will it last?

Populist emphasis on national identity and threats to it, real and imagined, find a deep response in voters adrift in a world they no longer understand

With Alternative for Germany close to power, federal officials want to limit the group’s access to classified intelligence

German chancellor under pressure following AfD’s second electoral victory in the east and far-left wins in Berlin

Lessons from elsewhere in Europe suggest once leaders become deeply unpopular, they almost never recover

Partial results show CDU just above the 5 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern