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Manfred Weber has said few European countries want the UK to hold European Parliament elections if Brexit is subject to a long delay. Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA
Many EU states do not want UK to take part in European elections, Weber says

The German politician who is the favourite to become the next European Commission president has said few European countries want the UK to hold Europe(...)

German chancellor Angela Merkel: address effectively declared a state of emergency in transatlantic relations. Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura
Merkel criticises US drift from global multilateral solutions

After two years of needling, German chancellor Angela Merkel has hit back at the Trump-era attacks on the multilateral world order – and on Germany’s (...)

Snow falls on a Berlin thoroughfare at the weekend. With little notice, a new speed limit regime has been imposed on many Berlin streets. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
Berliners find foul issue of filthy city air is a real curse

If you’re visiting Berlin and want to hear some really filthy German, I recommend taking a taxi ride from anywhere to anywhere. Within minutes the dr(...)

Charlotte Knobloch, a Holocaust survivor, speaks at the Bavarian parliament in Munich, Germany. Photograph: Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP
AfD MPs walk out on Holocaust survivor’s speech

Members of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) walked out of the Bavarian parliament on Wednesday after a Holocaust survivor accused(...)

For two weeks in 1919 the ordinary people of Limerick city took over, creating, albeit briefly, the embryonic elements of workers’ control – of, some would say, a new society
When Limerick workers seized the city – for two weeks

“On Monday, April 14, there began in Limerick city a strike protest against military tyranny, which because of its dramatic suddenness, its completene(...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaks to the media following the first Cabinet meeting of 2019 at Government Buildings, Dublin, on Thursday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
EU clarifications could help May sell withdrawal deal, says Varadkar

It would be “helpful” if European Union leaders knew what clarifications they could offer on the Brexit withdrawal agreement that would assist UK prim(...)

New Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhüttl during his first press conference at the Staplewood campus in Southampton, England. Photograph: Matt Watson
‘Alpine Klopp’ facing an uphill battle at Southampton

Ever since Ralph Hasenhüttl made his debut as a gangly teenage striker for his hometown club Grazer, Southampton’s new manager has forged a career out(...)

Divock Origi of Liverpool scores a strange goal past Jordan Pickford of Everton. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Ken Early: A draw now feels like defeat for teams chasing City

Marco Silva said it after the game: the great thing about football is it always shows you something new. The 55,000 people at Anfield must have seen u(...)

Friedrich Merz: said he was at most ‘upper middle-class’. Photograph: Epa/Ulrich Hufnagel
Merz wants to succeed Merkel but he has a problem – he’s a millionaire

Who wants to be a millionaire? Friedrich Merz doesn’t. The 62-year-old who hopes to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of Germany’s centre-right Christi(...)

Hans-Georg Maassen during a presentation in Berlin, Germany, in July 2018. File photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA
German former spy chief loses role after lambasting Merkel government
  • Europe
  • November 5, 2018, 20:40

The former head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has been sent into early retirement after sharply criticising Angela Merkel’s government in (...)

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