How the SPD won Germany’s federal election raceScholz plan to take chancellery for first time in two decades was four years in the makingFri Oct 01 2021 - 18:00
Fugitive (96) arrested in Hamburg to face Nazi war crimes trialFormer concentration camp secretary faces 11,000 counts of complicity to murderThu Sept 30 2021 - 18:36
Germany’s SPD lines up coalition talks as CDU tensions growCDU leader Armin Laschet plays for time as furious party members question leadershipWed Sept 29 2021 - 19:00
German Covid expert warns that flagging vaccine take-up risks autumn waveCountry’s vaccination rate has plateaued at 64%, as rate of infections creeps upWed Sept 29 2021 - 16:16
Germany’s rejuvenated SPD leads way in talks to form new coalitionOlaf Scholz best-placed to be chancellor, but CDU’s Armin Laschet is refusing to give inWed Sept 29 2021 - 01:00
Far-right AfD struggles to capitalise on extremist vote in German electionXenophobic party finished 10.3% in Sunday’s vote, losing four seats in BundestagTue Sept 28 2021 - 18:40
Berlin voters back campaign to divest landlords of up to 240,000 apartmentsInitiative orders city-state government to buy-out landlords with more than 3,000 unitsMon Sept 27 2021 - 17:03
Knives come out in Merkel’s party as Germans vote for changeAnalysis: Centre-left SPD wins election with snappy campaign and clear messagingMon Sept 27 2021 - 12:59
SPD leader Scholz calls for coalition talks after German election winAngela Merkel’s CDU suffers slump in support, leaving centre-rivals with ‘visible mandate’ to governMon Sept 27 2021 - 10:06
Germany’s CDU faces historic disaster as SPD appears to edge ahead in electionExit polls indicate Angela Merkel’s ruling party has had its worst-ever election resultSun Sept 26 2021 - 22:50
Germany tilts towards centre-left victory as SPD edges ahead in electionRuling CDU heads into post-Merkel era with fiasco as support slides eight pointsSun Sept 26 2021 - 22:21
Scholz leads SPD revival and puts party at the centre of coalition talksEarly projections suggest Mr Scholz has led Social Democrat party back to the topSun Sept 26 2021 - 20:53
Germany votes: The election that could change Europe's futureMore than 60 million Germans are called to vote on Sunday – Can climate anxiety convert to radical political change?Sat Sept 25 2021 - 06:00
German democracy enters a new chapter as Merkel departsEurope’s most populous – and powerful – country goes to the polls on SundaySat Sept 25 2021 - 05:00
Close-fought German election goes down to the wireCandidates deliver final effort to secure chancellery after Merkel’s departureFri Sept 24 2021 - 19:06
Germany’s main political parties almost level ahead of election – pollOutgoing chancellor Merkel’s CDU hoping for a record fifth term in governmentFri Sept 24 2021 - 18:31
Berliners face radical housing referendum in bid to slow overheated market‘The situation is still better than Dublin but that’s not saying a lot,’ says one Irish expatThu Sept 23 2021 - 20:00
CDU struggles to shake whiff of graft ahead of German election‘Party of law and order’ has had issues with graft, bribe-friendly MPs and lack of transparencyWed Sept 22 2021 - 20:00
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland by Crawford Gribben: Critical massPerhaps the greatest miracle of Irish Christianity is that it took root at all on this islandWed Sept 22 2021 - 06:00
Merkel joins Laschet for last-minute German election pushChancellor weighs in as polls show her CDU closing gap on the SPD before Sunday’s voteTue Sept 21 2021 - 19:35
Group of German millionaires seeking to be taxed at a higher rateA group led by Ralph Suikat sees the tax regime as morally bankruptMon Sept 20 2021 - 18:00
Schäuble blames CDU difficulties on outgoing MerkelParty trails in opinion polls as Armin Laschet struggles in campaign deemed fiascoSun Sept 19 2021 - 19:35
Olaf Scholz: The man in the driving seat to be Germany’s next chancellorSPD candidate has matched a centrist approach with a centre-left programmeFri Sept 17 2021 - 20:00
Germany’s federal election: The parties, polls, coalitions... and how it all worksSeptember 26th vote to determine who will succeed Angela Merkel in Europe’s hot seatFri Sept 17 2021 - 16:30
What lies ahead for Germany’s post-Merkel political economy?All election promises on tax and pension reform acknowledge recent era’s neglectFri Sept 17 2021 - 05:13
Former VW executives go on trial over diesel scamFour face charges of commercial and organised criminal fraudThu Sept 16 2021 - 18:45
German prosecutors accused of politicised campaign against election front runnerProsecutors deny raid on Scholz’s ministry was orchestrated to harm SPD campaignThu Sept 16 2021 - 18:19
AfD struggles for populist traction ahead of German electionMerkel’s departure has robbed far-right party of its favourite electoral hate figureWed Sept 15 2021 - 19:19
Covid conspiracy theorists complicate path to German electionPoliticians face dilemma over those who don’t want to be vaccinated ahead of autumn voteTue Sept 14 2021 - 18:13
Laschet presents action plan after trailing Scholz in German election debateCDU leader has less than two weeks to close five-point gap to SPDMon Sept 13 2021 - 17:58
German election gets dirty amid Trump and Nazi comparisonsCDU steps up attacks on SPD in federal election campaign as final Merkel term nears endSun Sept 12 2021 - 17:56
Ireland’s break with its Catholic past incomplete, says Sally RooneyAuthor says unanswered questions remain regarding the treatment of womenSun Sept 12 2021 - 16:23
Loud and Cleare: The Offaly woman wowing audiences with breakthrough soundsAnn Cleare is a sought-after talent and next year sees her opera in Munich about BrexitSat Sept 11 2021 - 06:00
Armin Laschet: German chancellor hopeful whose own party hides his election postersCDU leader’s ‘safe’ campaign is in the doldrums ahead of this month’s electionSat Sept 11 2021 - 05:00
Germany’s SPD accuses rival CDU of dirty tricks following raids on ministriesOlaf Scholz reacts to searches targeting party ministries two weeks before electionFri Sept 10 2021 - 20:40
‘Titanic mood’: EPP group suffers anxiety of post-Merkel eraVaradkar urges fresh focus on core values, as CDU braced for election losses in GermanyThu Sept 09 2021 - 20:00
Merkel’s election intervention causes uproar in German parliamentOutgoing chancellor uses final address to promote Laschet as her successorTue Sept 07 2021 - 20:00
Derek Scally: In fairness, our health system is illTime to stop calling out ‘in fairness’ about things that are anything but fairTue Sept 07 2021 - 00:20
German liberals shift from political joker to coalition wildcardClever pandemic positioning has helped FDP pull away protest voters from far-right AfDMon Sept 06 2021 - 20:00
Accessible Stasi archive offers a model for Catholic Ireland’s troubled pastIreland’s approach to its problematic past with religious orders jars with how East Germans took ownership of their shameful secret police filesSat Sept 04 2021 - 06:00
Germany’s Greens face battle to retain young climate voteAfter years owning climate politics the party now sees rivals make their own climate pitch to votersFri Sept 03 2021 - 20:00
Poland declares state of emergency over Belarus ‘hybrid war’Move a response to ‘destabilising’ efforts by Minsk, Warsaw saysThu Sept 02 2021 - 19:12
Germany’s rival parties dig into the past for election campaignsLeftist coalition evokes 1970s spirit of Willy Brandt, while CDU dons the red socks againWed Sept 01 2021 - 20:00
Laschet reboots German election campaign amid slide in pollsCDU leader pushes team-based strategy as senior allies express doubts about candidacyMon Aug 30 2021 - 19:51
Strange uncertainty hangs over Germany as post-Merkel election nearsFew Germans have any idea how the election will turn out. The parties are no wiserFri Aug 27 2021 - 16:00
Death of Irish woman in Berlin confirmed by German policeWoman’s parents have been informed and are receiving consular assistance from the Irish EmbassyThu Aug 26 2021 - 21:12
The third stage of Berlin life: falling in love with the PhilBerlin Letter: The music played through war and dictatorship, division and unificationThu Aug 26 2021 - 20:00
Tunnel 29: A quick, arresting read about escaping East BerlinBook review: Story of tunnel escapes under the Berlin Wall undermines real charactersThu Aug 26 2021 - 00:00
Angela Merkel concedes ‘bitter’ Afghanistan defeat for GermanyEmergency Bundestag sitting rips open old scars over debate about military engagementWed Aug 25 2021 - 12:00
German flood report finds political failingsEmergency weather warnings got lost in buck-passing and regional decision makingTue Aug 24 2021 - 18:05
