Michael O’Leary, Peter Sutherland attend Bilderberg conferenceGreece, US elections, Iran, Middle East, cybersecurity on agenda at secretive eventThu Jun 11 2015 - 01:00
Greek bailout stance ‘not acceptable’, says EUGreece submits revised bailout plan to Brussels with new primary surplus targetsWed Jun 10 2015 - 08:40
Jeb Bush visits Berlin and talks tough on RussiaLikely Republican presidential candidate praises Germany’s approach to austerityTue Jun 09 2015 - 22:06
Obama urges Greece to get ‘serious’ amid Russian sanctions talkUS president warns of ‘wrong-headed desire to recreate glories of Soviet empire’Tue Jun 09 2015 - 15:55
G7 leaders pledge to ‘decarbonise’ economies by end of centuryCampaigners circumspect in reaction to G7’s ‘clear commitment’ on climate issuesTue Jun 09 2015 - 01:00
G7 summit: Merkel in command but some wonder about security overkillChancellor Angela Merkel had something for everyone at the summitTue Jun 09 2015 - 01:00
G7 warned world remains unprepared for pandemicsMédecins Sans Frontières says countries are no more ready than before Ebola crisisMon Jun 08 2015 - 20:23
G7 discussions dominated by Greek crisis and Russia sanctionsJuncker launches stinging attack on Greek PM Alexis Tsipras over comments on dealMon Jun 08 2015 - 08:35
G7 summit: ‘We co-operate because we need to, because we want to’Obama and Merkel put up united front over pre-G7 breakfast of boiled veal sausageMon Jun 08 2015 - 01:00
Juncker lets fly at Tsipras over comments on Greek debt standoff‘I don’t have a personal problem with Tsipras but...friends have to respect some minimum rules’Sun Jun 07 2015 - 13:03
Hopes for less hot air at G7 summitIn the Bavarian alps, world’s leaders have an ambitious agenda for discussionSun Jun 07 2015 - 09:49
Unique consultation brings climate down to the citizensToday people from 80 countries will join the largest ever global debate on climate changeSat Jun 06 2015 - 07:13
Danish premier fights tightest election in memoryHelle Thorning-Schmidt win would spark hope for Europe’s social democratsSat Jun 06 2015 - 01:19
Wexford Festival Opera makes overtures to Berlin and beyondThe unique festival is spreading the word about its innovative approach to productionsSat Jun 06 2015 - 01:00
Greek bonds up amid talk of deal with creditorsAlexis Tsipras submits proposals after meeting with political and troika leadersTue Jun 02 2015 - 22:34
An Irishman’s Diary on why some Germans need to find their inner childPicture book offers lessons for grumpy grown-upsTue Jun 02 2015 - 01:01
Jean-Claude Juncker calls for greater flexibility on GreeceThere is a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Greece and those unaware of it are ‘blind’ – JunckerTue Jun 02 2015 - 01:00
Merkel promises to work with Cameron on reform of EUHowever, Poland expresses resistance over potential restrictions to free movementFri May 29 2015 - 21:53
Merkel ally rules out marriage equality for GermanyBundestag spokesman for chancellor’s party says marriage is ‘union of man and woman’Fri May 29 2015 - 19:17
Lagarde’s Grexit comments blamed on Chinese whispersIMF denies that its chief executive said a Greek exit from the euro was a ‘possibility’Fri May 29 2015 - 09:46
More Greek debt-relief inevitable say finance ministers at G7 talksOfficials from leading economies likely to make funds conditional on actual reformFri May 29 2015 - 01:00
Finns follow Ireland with budget cutsPlan for frontloaded cuts of €4bn by 2019, coupled with €1.6bn investment promiseThu May 28 2015 - 01:00
Helle Thorning-Schmidt calls June Danish general electionPrime minister hopes economic recovery will reverse Social Democrat poll slideWed May 27 2015 - 17:46
German politicians demand moves to follow Irish referendumMerkel faces dilemma as survey shows 75% of Germans favour marriage equalityTue May 26 2015 - 22:39
Poland presidential vote augurs ill for EU relationsPresidential win for Eurosceptic PiS has raised concerns over autumn’s electionMon May 25 2015 - 18:35
Angela Merkel urged to follow Ireland’s lead on same-sex marriageIrish vote tops German news with politicians saying ‘what the Catholic Irish can do, we can do, too’Sun May 24 2015 - 13:37
De-Google your life: it’s worth the hassle if you value your privacyData privacy may seem like a distant and abstract concept but what is more personal than the information you are sharing with Google?Thu May 14 2015 - 02:00
Deutsche in dock as Germany’s most German bank struggles to reinvent itselfAs its past catches up with it in court, analysts worry more that the lender has no clear path for its futureMon May 11 2015 - 02:00
Polish presidential run-off may influence parliamentary electionIncumbent Bronislaw Komorowski has pitched himself to voters as the safe and experienced pair of handsSat May 09 2015 - 01:00
Berlin’s rubble women did much of the post-war workAs Germans remember the rebuilding of their country, nobody has thanked the womenSat May 09 2015 - 01:00
Uneasy air of peace lingers over Berlin capitulation museumAgainst the backdrop of Ukraine’s conflict, it is clear the divide between east and west lives onFri May 08 2015 - 01:00
Eurosceptic party to join new centre-right government in FinlandWith recession and 10% unemployment, the Finns face pressure to bring debt into lineThu May 07 2015 - 18:31
Greece makes IMF payment but hopes of quick deal dashedNeither breakthrough nor breakdown reported as Greek debt talks rumble onWed May 06 2015 - 22:28
Greek talks with creditors continueCash-strapped Athens facing €200 million interest repayment to IMF todayWed May 06 2015 - 08:26
Signs of end to stand-off with developers at Checkpoint CharlieSite of infamous border crossing reportedly sold at a €58m profit for NamaWed May 06 2015 - 01:00
Angela Merkel agrees to testify on NSA co-operationChancellor under pressure to state if and when she was aware of BND spying for USWed May 06 2015 - 01:00
Derek Scally: Spying scandal grips the land of self-fulfilling assertionsMerkel at centre of questions on German co-operation with NSASat May 02 2015 - 12:57
Munich’s Nazi museum fails to interrogate historyCity’s new attraction is little more than a sterile box filled with superficialityFri May 01 2015 - 19:30
Seven decades after second World War, Germany is still burying its deadDecades after they fell, dead soldiers are still being found and given burialsFri May 01 2015 - 01:00
Site of Hitler’s death still a tourist attraction 70 years onVisitors to Berlin are drawn to the place of the dictator’s last stand, but officials are tornThu Apr 30 2015 - 01:00
Deutsche Bank CEO in court with predecessors over Kirch bankruptcyBank leaders accused of consipracy to co-ordinate false testimonyTue Apr 28 2015 - 18:16
Two German children, aged 6 and 8, try to run away to IrelandThe boy and girl packed food, a torch, an alarm clock and a book for 1,600km journeyTue Apr 28 2015 - 17:57
Deutsche Bank plans swingeing cuts to drive recovery in profitsDetails come a day ahead of court date for joint CEO Jürgen Fitschen over Kirch investigationTue Apr 28 2015 - 00:23
Auschwitz survivors row over forgivenessRejecting 'victimhood', one of 50 plaintiffs publicly forgives ex-SS man after he admits ‘moral guilt’Mon Apr 27 2015 - 19:25
Young Irish students doing the business in GermanyA summer school in Munich opens Irish minds to the German outlook on businessMon Apr 27 2015 - 15:00
VW chairman Piëch hoist by his own petardGroup chairman resigns after losing boardroom battle with chief executive Martin WinterkornMon Apr 27 2015 - 01:00
Former Polish minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski diesThe 93-year-old, who survived Auschwitz, was also a writer and activistSun Apr 26 2015 - 18:52
Merkel under pressure over NSA revelationsGerman foreign intelligence agency accused of processing over 40,000 spy requests from US organisationSat Apr 25 2015 - 01:00
‘Auschwitz book-keeper’ apologises for role in Nazi killing machineSS officer Oskar Gröning accused of being accessory to murder of 300,000 JewsWed Apr 22 2015 - 01:00
The trial of Oskar Gröning divides opinion over Nazi atrocity prosecutionsOfficial apathy let countless Auschwitz cases get away: lawyers, civil servants and politicians in the two post-war German states worked assiduously to prevent such trials ever taking placeTue Apr 21 2015 - 16:53
