Schäuble will be elected on Sunday but will he be finance minister?Price paid by Merkel for coalition may see the flinty politician sidelined in favour of FDP candidateWed Sept 20 2017 - 06:52
German election campaign goes back to the futureIrish-style door-to-door canvassing has been enhanced with specialised apps to win votesWed Sept 20 2017 - 01:00
AfD embraces Pegida ahead of German electionParty speakers say Merkel administration has ‘blood on its hands’ over its refugee policyTue Sept 19 2017 - 18:19
Martin Schulz challenge disintegrates as SPD gets lost in Merkel’s shadowGerman election: Enshrouded in working-class myth, the SPD leader is destined for oppositionTue Sept 19 2017 - 01:00
Turkish shadow looms over German election as leaders’ relationship darkensErdogan urges voters to boycott Merkel’s party as ‘enemy of Turkey’Sun Sept 17 2017 - 20:23
Merkel female trio bid for fourth termThe chancellor and her loyal political team are on course for victory at next Sunday’s federal electionSat Sept 16 2017 - 02:00
SPD slumps in polls a week before German electionSchulz facing humiliation as latest poll puts Social Democratic Party on just 20%Fri Sept 15 2017 - 19:11
Germany’s far-right prepares for its Bundestag debutAlternative für Deutschland aims to cement its rise by entering the parliamentFri Sept 15 2017 - 02:00
German liberals stage comeback in the race for election bronzeImage-obsessed FDP hopes to win back enough support to be coalition kingmakerThu Sept 14 2017 - 02:00
Ireland’s days of hiding behind Britain in Europe are overWe will eventually have to show our hand when the push for EU reforms gathers paceWed Sept 13 2017 - 01:27
East German town’s blossoming landscapes mask major threatsQuedlinburg’s restoration has brought tourists and business, but many challenges remainTue Sept 12 2017 - 01:00
Anti-Merkel sentiment grows in east Germany before election‘Disappointed love’ and immigration fears are causing unrest in chancellor’s heartlandMon Sept 11 2017 - 07:00
How a small German town mastered the refugee crisisLower Saxon city embraces asylum seekers as it counters low birth rate and brain drainSat Sept 09 2017 - 01:00
Hacking and fake news cast shadows over German electionGermany faces up to the threat of targeted cyberattacks ahead of September’s federal voteFri Sept 08 2017 - 01:00
Berlin tech fair IFA shows its age as it reaches to the futureWindows Mixed Reality and high-tech oven among innovations at veteran trade showThu Sept 07 2017 - 06:45
Race for bronze heats up in Germany election campaignIn the Bundestag, opposition politicians released four years of frustration with MerkelTue Sept 05 2017 - 18:59
Food banks: the dirty secret of the Merkel era‘You hear that our state coffers are well-filled but it’s depressing how empty my fridge is’Tue Sept 05 2017 - 01:00
Angela Merkel seeks motorists’ backing with €1bn ‘mobility fund’Chancellor aims to reassure voters over looming diesel bans in German citiesMon Sept 04 2017 - 21:16
Merkel dominates TV debate as Schulz fails to turn tideChancellor defends record on Turkey and migration as Germany prepares for electionSun Sept 03 2017 - 22:30
Angela Merkel: the world’s most powerful womanAs German election nears, shadows are falling over the chancellor’s looming victorySat Sept 02 2017 - 06:00
Televised debate pushes German election into high gearThe debate is challenger Martin Schulz’s last, best chance to turn the election aroundSat Sept 02 2017 - 02:00
Berlin private medical school accused of allowing illegal human dissectionsHealth officials also allege that Prometheus Academy’s head isn’t a real doctorFri Sept 01 2017 - 19:14
Samsung makes splash with new watch and Speedo appIFA tech fair showcases latest innovations in phones, watches, ovens, vacuums and TVsThu Aug 31 2017 - 19:46
Borussia Dortmund bus was bombed 'to cash in on shares'The 28-year-old suspect had bought shares in the club and hoped to cash in for €4millionWed Aug 30 2017 - 09:43
EU and Turkey have little hope of deepening ties, Merkel saysPoland’s court reforms, Russian sanctions, and refugee crisis discussed at wide-ranging press conferenceTue Aug 29 2017 - 13:30
Germany is ‘banana republic’ of European aviation, Ryanair saysAirline has complained to competition authorities over Air Berlin ‘stitch-up’Tue Aug 29 2017 - 11:17
High-flying Merkel under fire over helicopter flight fee discountGerman chancellor accused by rival over use of helicopter at ‘knockdown price’Mon Aug 28 2017 - 17:58
Germany’s refugee debate is likely to benefit right-wing partyAlternative für Deutschland adapts: populist xenophobia in east, conservatism in westMon Aug 28 2017 - 16:41
Angela Merkel takes a tougher refugee line ahead of electionGerman chancellor to seek extension of border checks in effort to win back votersSun Aug 27 2017 - 20:18
St Oliver Plunkett: Head of Irish church thanks Germans for key roleArchbishop Eamon Martin thanks Benedictine monks who guarded Irish saint’s bodySat Aug 26 2017 - 18:27
Germany plans ban on diesel cars in cities from early 2018Software updates alone will not be enough to avoid ban, warns environment ministerFri Aug 25 2017 - 05:30
Trump deserves respect for winning US presidency, says MerkelNationalist thinking the wrong approach in a globalised world, chancellor arguesThu Aug 24 2017 - 19:46
Hilter’s Tempelhof airport to become Berlin tourist attractionPlans have been unveiled to build a 1.2km public terrace atop the Nazi structureThu Aug 24 2017 - 19:35
Race to carve up Air Berlin has taken off in earnestCantillon: O’Leary says if Lufthansa swallows up Air Berlin it will create ‘national monster’Thu Aug 24 2017 - 06:00
‘Merkel doesn’t polarise’: poll points to fourth term for chancellorHowever, a record one in two voters remains undecided and make-up of coalition unclearWed Aug 23 2017 - 17:51
German-Turkish standoff flares up over arrest of writerTurkey trying to extradite German-based Turkish writer critical of Erdogan’s regimeMon Aug 21 2017 - 19:59
Frankfurt and Dublin will be winners on Brexit jobs, says Bundesbank memberAndreas Dombret says American banks are concentrating relocations on the two citiesMon Aug 21 2017 - 06:15
German president’s villa remains haunted by its pastFrank-Walter Steinmeier is under pressure to commemorate building’s Jewish ex-ownerMon Aug 21 2017 - 01:00
Austrian Social Democrats fire election adviser over fraud claimsChancellor Christian Kern said party had severed ties to Tal SilbersteinThu Aug 17 2017 - 20:24
Gerhard Schröder’s Russian oil links leave a bad tasteFormer German chancellor and friend of Putin nominated for board of RosneftThu Aug 17 2017 - 18:41
Germans dismiss Ryanair claim over Air Berlin as ‘absurd’Irish airline claims state loan to struggling firm is part of ‘conspiracy’ to distort marketWed Aug 16 2017 - 21:56
Merkel dispels world war fears with smiley emojisGerman chancellor makes her YouTube premiere pitching to young votersWed Aug 16 2017 - 16:35
Capital expenditure to be clear focus of budget, says DonohoeMinister outlines Republic’s Brexit concerns in talks with German counterpart SchäubleTue Aug 15 2017 - 21:35
ECB bond-buying activities referred to Europe’s highest courtEuropean Court of Justice to rule on whether asset purchase programme broke bank’s banTue Aug 15 2017 - 20:47
Merkel heirs apparent look to three-way coalitionChancellor warned against third coalition with Social Democrats in federal electionsTue Aug 15 2017 - 18:36
Schulz embraces parish pump politics in German campaignSPD challenger to Angela Merkel employs hands-on personal approach to electionTue Aug 15 2017 - 01:00
Germany remembers Berlin Wall and those who died trying to fleeCulture minister says remembering victims of wall part of state’s commemorative cultureSun Aug 13 2017 - 18:39
Angela Merkel launches scathing attack on German car giantsGerman chancellor says large sections of the auto industry have gambled away ‘huge amount of trust’Sun Aug 13 2017 - 16:36
Exhuming Roger Casement by TV dramaIn Germany, one man is campaigning to screen a forgotten TV play about the Irish revolutionarySat Aug 12 2017 - 06:00
Merkel's CDU still in denial about East German collaborationChancellor shows little interest in examining the history of her party’s East German wingFri Aug 11 2017 - 19:26
