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AfD MPs walk out on Holocaust survivor’s speech
- Europe
- January 23, 2019, 19:47
Members of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) walked out of the Bavarian parliament on Wednesday after a Holocaust survivor accused(...)

German authorities seek Irish help over ‘very serious’ data hack
- Technology
- January 4, 2019, 08:35
Germany has sought assistance of Irish data protection officials and US intelligence after a “very, very serious” hack of digital communications of Ge(...)

Breda O’Brien: Women in politics are denied their own identities
- Opinion
- December 15, 2018, 05:00
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, known as AKK, the new chair of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has to put u(...)

German state governments demand surveillance of far-right AfD
- Europe
- December 10, 2018, 05:00
The first time Berlin politician Andreas Wild wore a cornflower on his lapel in public it was, he said, to demonstrate his “links to the fatherland”, (...)

Q&A: How will Angela Merkel’s successor as CDU leader be chosen?
- Europe
- December 6, 2018, 18:00
What is happening on Friday in Hamburg? After 18 years, Angela Merkel is standing down as leader of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union(...)

Merz wants to succeed Merkel but he has a problem – he’s a millionaire
- Europe
- November 23, 2018, 02:00
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(...)

‘Very good progress’ in Brussels as Brexit talks go to the wire
- Europe
- November 21, 2018, 19:32
Theresa May will return to Brussels on Saturday for further talks with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker after a meeting on Wednesday(...)

Statute to rein in far-rightist remarks proposed in Germany
- Europe
- November 19, 2018, 17:00
Moderates in Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland have proposed a new codex to rein in politicians’ public remarks in a bid to avoid coming(...)

Macron urges greater European integration in address to Bundestag
- Europe
- November 18, 2018, 19:19
In his Bundestag debut on Sunday, French president Emmanuel Macron warned Europe – and his German host – that “chaos” looms unless the continent – pus(...)

The Irish Times view on German politics: the Merkel era enters its closing phase
- Editorial
- October 31, 2018, 00:10
For most of her 13 years as chancellor, a crisis, for Angela Merkel, was something that happened elsewhere. Economies tanked. Terrorists struck. Popul(...)