Power blackouts, fuel shortages and mass emigration: Cuba’s crisis weighs heaviest on the elderly
The country’s ageing population is growing more isolated as mass emigration, inflation and fuel shortages leave older citizens struggling to cope
Germany
How to stay cool, calm and collected for your Leaving Cert language oral
With language orals, there is a lot of information to remember before you even greet the examiner
US allies reject Trump call for escorts on Strait of Hormuz
Japan and Australia have no plans to send ship as US president says Nato faces ‘very bad’ future if members fail to assist
Jürgen Habermas lived to see a return of the fascist ghosts he once helped exorcise
The German philosopher, who has died aged 96, was young enough to carry no culpability for the Nazi era yet old enough to carry lifelong scars
Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
German chancellor Friedrich Merz described him as ‘one of the most significant thinkers of our time’
Keith Duggan’s US road trip: A German town on the Missouri weighs its past - and its future
A Rhineland dream transplanted to the Midwest, Hermann offers European architecture, easygoing days and a deep sense of place
Removal of German bookshops from prize list calls a minister’s actions in question
Country has in recent years found creative ways and means to silence those with views it finds problematic
Economy tops election agenda in Germany’s engineering hub
Baden-Württemberg is home to Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Bosch
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’
Elon Musk and German car union IG Metall lock horns over influence at Tesla
But smaller unions accuse larger rival of aggressive tone and retrograde stance with management
Merz sides with Trump over US-Israel war on Iran with no talk of strike legality
Chancellor becomes first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump, four days after Israel and the US launch strikes on Iran
Greenman names new chief executive as fund sells assets to meet frozen redemptions
Firm’s flagship German supermarkets fund expects to close sale of a portfolio of properties in June to start meeting redemption requests
Sound of Falling director Mascha Schilinski: ‘We realised there were many repressed secrets’
German film-maker on how her Cannes-winning second feature brings women’s voices out of the margins
Sound of Falling: Forbidding film that richly rewards audiences
Mascha Schilinski’s second feature employs a comprehensive cinematic arsenal to tell a tale of abuse, unease and alienation
Trump says US-Israel attack on Iran was pre-emptive
US president speaks of ‘mutual affinity’ with Germany during joint press conference
Merz abandons Germany’s moral certainties as he aligns with Trump on Iran
Berlin’s traditional caution gives way to realpolitik as chancellor seeks influence with Trump and navigates an unstable world
Translated fiction: Women in Ukraine; Jewish Guatemalans ready for war; an East German memoir
Works by Yuliia Iliukha, Artem Chapeye, Antoine Volodine, Eduardo Halfon, Julia Franck and Elisa Shua Dusapin
Outsider by Paul Cullen: Moving memoir holds a torch up to cruel attitudes of the past
Cullen’s journey of discovery is the type that can haunt its reader in the middle of the night
Selling Berlin: ‘Ryanair added extra flights at one stage for the number of Irish property investors’
Wild Geese: Denis Madden, Berlin
Irish-UK biopic of jazz pianist Bill Evans wins prestigious award at Berlin Film Festival
Director Grant Lee takes Silver Bear for movie featuring Newry actor Valene Kane, with screenplay by Mark O’Halloran
Germany’s Friedrich Merz says Europe’s freedom depends on its ability to defend itself
German chancellor told party delegates ‘what counts is strength – military as well as economic’
Pressure mounts on Germany’s ruling CDU to move from promising to delivering big-bang reform
While Friedrich Merz tries to get his house in order at home, the chancellor is struggling with key European relationships
Europe ponders its future: embrace an ally, submit to a bully or go it alone?
The world came to the Munich Security Conference over the weekend for an ideological showdown
Munich was no love-in, but Rubio spared Europe a Valentine’s Day massacre
Shuttling between realpolitik slap and diplomatic tickle, US secretary of state urges end to ‘western malaise’
McEntee upbeat following ‘conciliatory’ US position on European relations
‘The UN has served us extremely well ... but reform is needed’ Minister for Foreign Affairs says at Munich Defence Conference
A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe
How Schleswig-Holstein is challenging big tech dominance and redefining digital sovereignty
‘Buy European’, reforms, trade deals: How EU plans to jump-start bloc’s sluggish economy
EU leaders met this week to talk about reversing a trend that spells trouble for the union
Breaking up is hard to do: Europe confronts end of the old order
A year on from JD Vance’s bombshell speech in Munich, European leaders are searching for a post-American future
How Ireland’s economy shifted to cater for the surge in college graduates
The Republic has been something of an outlier in how the drop in jobs for those without third-level education has affected the political climate
‘I was sleeping in a tent’: German man who ran away to Clare aged 14
Michael Denninger used money from his confirmation to travel from Coburg to Clare in 1980
Tui Holidays withdrew planes from Dublin amid €3m loss at Irish unit
Travel agent recorded a loss for 2025 citing tough trading conditions and hits to margins
Germany’s far-right AfD attempts to soften ‘remigration’ stance as elections loom
Moves to distance party from extremist figures reveal tensions between electoral ambition and ideological hardliners
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