Austria bids farewell to Fucking after a millennium of misunderstandingsVillage of 100 residents near Salzburg – a modern selfie hell – to be renamed FuggingFri Nov 27 2020 - 16:08
German researchers claim risk of Covid transmission at live classical music is manageableMany wind instruments have a design that traps and condenses aerosols internallyThu Nov 26 2020 - 20:00
Stand-off in Europe over plan to ban ski season due to Covid-19Austria rejects proposals by Germany, France and Italy to postpone ski seasonThu Nov 26 2020 - 17:41
Germany extends partial lockdown to allow 10-day Christmas amnestyMerkel meets regional leaders as country registers highest daily death toll of 410Wed Nov 25 2020 - 21:00
Pragmatism pushes Greens towards power in GermanySome 800 delegates from party’s rival wings present united front for looming election battleTue Nov 24 2020 - 19:00
Germans push back against anti-mask Nazi resistance comparisonsOpponents of Covid-19 restrictions embrace idea of fighting totalitarian German stateMon Nov 23 2020 - 20:24
Bundestag MPs turn on AfD after parliamentary provocationDebate sparked as chamber agitators turn out to be invited guests of far-right politicianFri Nov 20 2020 - 20:41
Teacher suspected of eating man he met in online chat forum is remanded in custodyPolice raided apartment and found freezer with traces of human blood and a bone sawFri Nov 20 2020 - 15:48
Catholic church in Germany under pressure on abuse reportsAachen hierarchy more receptive to account of systemic failures than Cologne peersThu Nov 19 2020 - 19:30
Angela Merkel put on trial in German climate change drama set in 2034TV film features an 80-year-old former chancellor accused of environment failuresThu Nov 19 2020 - 01:00
Police deploy water cannon to disperse Covid-19 protest in BerlinAbout 10,000 take part in demonstration against coronavirus-related restrictionsWed Nov 18 2020 - 13:21
Berlin’s rent cap could fall victim to law of unintended consequencesBerlin Letter: Rapidly shrinking rental market may hit poorer renters hardestWed Nov 18 2020 - 01:00
German police swoop on suspected jewel thievesHeist in Dresden last year saw 94 priceless pieces of jewellery stolen from Green VaultTue Nov 17 2020 - 17:15
Austria to launch mass testing as tight lockdown resumesSebastian Kurz says country will shut down almost completely until December 6thMon Nov 16 2020 - 20:03
Five on trial in Germany accused of operating paedophile ringBoys allegedly drugged with ecstasy and knock-out drops for often lengthy abuseThu Nov 12 2020 - 18:45
Polish bishops ask Rome to investigate former papal secretaryAny investigation would raise to at least 16 the number of clerics undergoing or facing canonical investigations in RomeWed Nov 11 2020 - 18:32
Germans mourn Carnival cancellation amid Covid-19 fearsBlack day for Cologne: ‘This time there will be no celebrating, no singing and no dancing’Tue Nov 10 2020 - 18:31
Covid vaccine a ‘victory for innovation’, says German company developing drugBioNTech’s work could provide a major breakthrough in the fight against the pandemicMon Nov 09 2020 - 20:42
Merkel expresses hope Biden will revive ‘treasure’ of transatlantic tiesUS expects more from EU ‘and rightly so’, German chancellor saysMon Nov 09 2020 - 18:41
Denmark locks down North Jutland after Covid-19 mutation in mink farmsPrime minister announces new restrictions affecting 280,000 people, and has ordered the cull of millions of mink on farmsFri Nov 06 2020 - 14:39
Germany adopts loose lockdown despite record-breaking Covid-19 casesSchools, hairdressers and shops remain open in ‘lockdown lite’ as testing hits capacityThu Nov 05 2020 - 17:28
Polish government stalls publication of controversial abortion BillConservative Law and Justice party and its partners alarmed by burgeoning protestsWed Nov 04 2020 - 18:12
Austrian anti-terrorism agency ignored warnings on Vienna gunmanAustria’s interior minister says Slovakia alerted BVT to attempt to buy ammunitionWed Nov 04 2020 - 18:09
Terror will not divide Austria, chancellor says in wake of Vienna attackFour killed and 17 injured in shooting spree by 20-year-old Islamic State supporterTue Nov 03 2020 - 18:25
Vienna: At least two dead, several injured in ‘terror attack’ in cityManhunt under way after shooting takes place at six locations in Austrian capitalMon Nov 02 2020 - 22:56
Row over unpublished report on Cologne clerical sex abuse cover-upReport falls victim to legal claims and a power battle among two church campsMon Nov 02 2020 - 17:36
Missing Wirecard executive could be Austrian spy, prosecutors sayJan Marsalek disappaeared the day he was fired as details of €3bn fraud emergedFri Oct 30 2020 - 17:43
Poland braced for violent protests over abortion restrictionsPolish women’s groups prepare to face off against police and neo-fascists as rallies continueFri Oct 30 2020 - 17:31
Merkel prepares Germans for ‘hard winter’ and second lockdownBundestag opposition warns of ‘crisis of trust’ in government with bars, restaurants to closeThu Oct 29 2020 - 19:41
Berlin’s new airport eyes Halloween opening after seven years of horrorsBER is nine years late, wildly over budget and opening during a pandemicThu Oct 29 2020 - 19:00
Germany to impose month-long partial lockdown from Monday‘We are in a new situation we may soon no longer be able to master’ warns finance ministerWed Oct 28 2020 - 19:02
Polish leader urges supporters to defend church, state against pro-choice ‘nihilists’Deputy PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski insists protesters a threat to public order, Polish valuesWed Oct 28 2020 - 15:59
CDU dismisses claims of leadership intrigueMerz sees postponed party conference as part of campaign to give rivals time to boost supportTue Oct 27 2020 - 19:14
Warsaw braced for further protests after anti-abortion rulingAbortions now legal only in cases of rape, incest or threat to the mother’s healthFri Oct 23 2020 - 18:14
Angela Merkel’s party in a tizzy as it struggles to appoint a new leaderCoronavirus has hobbled the CDU’s long-running efforts to reach a decisionFri Oct 23 2020 - 18:05
‘I will shoot you’: German politicians hit with Covid hate mailRestrictions devised to protect public health draw stream of insults from furious citizensThu Oct 22 2020 - 17:02
Schäuble demands that Bundestag reclaim Covid-19 initiativeGerman MPs urged to take back control of Covid legislation rather than rubberstamp extension of emergency provisions enacted in MarchWed Oct 21 2020 - 16:31
Berlin police have no motive for worst case of art vandalism in post-war GermanyAttack on at least 63 artworks took place in three museums in Museum Island complexWed Oct 21 2020 - 15:20
Nothing's sacred: 'INRI' crucifix legend trademarked by T-shirt visionaryWerner Lustig is optimistic there is money to be made from 2,000-year-old Roman insultWed Oct 21 2020 - 01:00
Merkel snubs German state leaders in direct Covid-19 appealDiminishing political unity contributing to public fatigue with restrictions, experts fearMon Oct 19 2020 - 19:10
German church rehabilitates disgraced Nazi-era pastorFriedrich Klein stripped of ordination rights in 1943 in response to Nazi military court convictionMon Oct 05 2020 - 18:04
Derek Scally: Some home thoughts from Berlin on Covid-19I’m struck by how many of my friends at home feel that anxious and bitter people are setting the pandemic agendaMon Oct 05 2020 - 00:48
Reunited Germany, 30 years on: ‘We have a permanent hullabaloo’Three decades ago 63 million West Germans and 16 million East Germans reunitedSat Oct 03 2020 - 05:00
Swiss bank ordered to pay compensation for missing East German millionsSubsidiary of Julius Bär bank helped hide cash for ruling party in state’s dying daysFri Oct 02 2020 - 16:47
Alexei Navalny blames Vladimir Putin for poison attackPolitician says he will return home to Russia in first interview since regaining consciousnessThu Oct 01 2020 - 16:36
Polish government hits back at letter of support for LGBTI communityLetter signed by 50 ambassadors calls for tolerance as ruling party ramps up rhetoricTue Sept 29 2020 - 19:23
Coronavirus: Vienna begins ‘cluster buster’ bus service to test schoolchildrenFleet of blue buses with medical staff to visit schools, using newly developed rapid testMon Sept 28 2020 - 19:08
AfD fires spokesman who favours ‘shooting or gassing’ migrantsGerman far-right party’s ‘fascist’ Christian Lüth says view representative of AfD seniorsMon Sept 28 2020 - 18:26
‘The arts in Ireland are a luxury – in Germany they’re a necessity’While the Irish arts sector remains largely shut down, Germany is prioritising the unlocking of cultureSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Covid-19: How Asian countries got contact-tracing right while European states are strugglingJapan and South Korea trace beyond 48 hours to establish where the sick person caught the virusFri Sept 25 2020 - 13:16
