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Chancellor-elect Olaf Scholz said he had delivered on his SPD’s key election promises: a €12 minimum wage, higher child allowance and an undertaking to keep pensions stable. Photograph: Filip Singer/Getty Images
Jam for all promised as Germany enters post-Merkel era

When Germany’s future “traffic light” coalition members presented their programme for government, drafted in a month of remarkably leak-free negotiat(...)

CDU chairman Armin Laschet signalled he would stand down after the party’s worst-ever federal election result. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images
‘Implosion’: CDU plays blame game after German election disaster

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is racing to avoid a political death-spiral after last month’s election disaster by starting a hunt for its(...)

Chancellor Angela Merkel after visiting the flood-ravaged towns in western Germany. Many see the floods as an appropriate, tragic symbol of Merkel’s mixed climate record. Photograph: Christof Stache / AFP via Getty
Europe after Merkel: Goodbye to the woman who has held Europe together

Exactly 100 years ago in Frankfurt, the 30 year-old inventor Max Braun founded an electronics company that conquered the world. With stylish, function(...)

Christian Democratic Union party’s Armin Laschet: “We need to clean out bureaucracy, create a modern and service-oriented state that acts quickly and with foresight.” Photograph: Stefanie Loos/Bloomberg
Shellshocked Laschet has five months to retool CDU

Armin Laschet should be savouring this moment, his elevation to the ranks of Europe’s political super league. The 60-year-old native of Aachen in Ger(...)

CDU leader Armin Laschet: Secured just two-thirds support from his own party board. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA
Armin Laschet clinches nomination to run for German chancellor

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Armin Laschet has joined the race to be the country’s next chancellor after a Bavarian rival ended a(...)

Maybe Level 5 really is our one last best shot. But are we willing to accept it without question – without a lot of questions? Photograph: Stephen Collins
Jennifer O’Connell: No transparency behind swerve into severe lockdown

This will be the longest, coldest, bleakest winter anyone can remember, and it’s only getting started. Politicians are making cloying promises about “(...)

Youths wave German flags during the celebration of the country’s reunification at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin October 3rd 1990. Photograph: Gilles Leimdorfer/AFP via Getty Images
Reunited Germany, 30 years on: ‘We have a permanent hullabaloo’

Here’s some free advice, included in the price of today’s Irish Times: if you ever need someone to retool your national sovereignty, best ask a German(...)

Paschal Donohoe and Nadia Calviño (right), pictured with European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici, are both seen as strong contenders to lead the eurogroup following the resignation of Portugal’s Mário Centeno. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
Paschal Donohoe seen as contender for Eurogroup presidency

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is likely to be a candidate to head the group of Eurozone finance ministers but only if a new government is forme(...)

European Parliament president David Sassoli: “Now is not the time for rigid thinking but for reconstruction.” Photograph: Getty Images
EU parliament may block fund unless it has grants which do not need to be repaid

The European Parliament will block a recovery fund proposed to help stem the deep economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic unless it is sufficientl(...)

Brussels faces an entrenched split over ways to finance Europe’s economic recovery after a group of four northern member states rejected a Franco-German plan to issue EU debt to provide grants for Covid-19-stricken countries. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
EU divisions laid bare by ‘frugal four’ Covid recovery proposal

Brussels faces an entrenched split over ways to finance Europe’s economic recovery after a group of four northern member states rejected a Franco-Germ(...)

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