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
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
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
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
Finland backs centrist politician to revive economyJuha Sipilä’s Centre Party wins 21% of vote and is likely to head new coalition governmentTue Apr 21 2015 - 01:00
Finland struggling to find way in post-Nokia worldMicrosoft’s takeover felt like your parents had sold a sibling to pay the billsFri Apr 17 2015 - 01:35
Finnish election will come down to economic fundamentalsJuha Sipilä’s Centre Party likely to lead coalition with incumbent Stubb a minor playerFri Apr 17 2015 - 01:00
Populist Finns reaching for powerSunday’s election is a moment of truth for Finnish voters and the Finns partyThu Apr 16 2015 - 01:00
Finnish border town is feeling Russian pinchEU-Moscow links are key to Sunday’s poll as cross-border commerce suffersWed Apr 15 2015 - 01:00
Olli Rehn returns to stricken Finland pledging austerityTough ex-EU commissioner will use harsh policies if elected to powerTue Apr 14 2015 - 01:00
Günter Grass, Nobel-winning novelist dies aged 87Author of The Tin Drum passes away in hospital in LübeckMon Apr 13 2015 - 16:57
65-year-old German woman pregnant with quadrupletsDoctors optimistic for Berliner Anngret Raunigk, who has 13 children alreadySun Apr 12 2015 - 13:14
Facebook campaigner complains of ‘madness’ of Irish courtsMax Schrems says he had to give up on Facebook challenge hereThu Apr 09 2015 - 17:53
All started with joke Facebook could ‘do what it wants in Europe’Max Schrems’ case demands company divulge what user data it collects and whyThu Apr 09 2015 - 17:51
Vienna court to hear Schrems’s civil suit against FacebookPrivacy campaigner accuses social network giant violating Austrian and EU lawsThu Apr 09 2015 - 10:14
The diary of the non-Jewish Anne Frank and her ‘normal’ Berlin lifeBrigitte Eicke’s teenager account of life in wartime Germany offers a very different perspective on the Nazi yearsSat Apr 04 2015 - 01:00
French investigators find Germanwings data recorderCo-pilot Lubitz may have researched cockpit security measures and suicideFri Apr 03 2015 - 01:00
Berlin and Paris show new resolve in tragedyChancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande hold joint cabinet meeting in BerlinWed Apr 01 2015 - 01:00
Germanwings: Prosecutor critical of media drive for newsTaskforce of 100 compiling information on Germanwings first-officer Andreas LubitzTue Mar 31 2015 - 01:00
Andreas Lubitz concealed sick certs from GermanwingsInvestigators: Neither suicide note nor letter claiming responsibility found at apartmentSat Mar 28 2015 - 10:59
Burton calls on Greece to make credible progress in tax takeIreland wants Greece to tackle corruption and boost tax revenue, says TánaisteSat Mar 28 2015 - 08:30
Healy-Rae accuses FG of ‘looking down its nose’ at him in reportsJoan Burton defends Eamon Gilmore over FG claims he could lose Dáil seatSat Mar 28 2015 - 01:00
Former chancellor Gerhard Schröder said to have split from fourth wifeReports and cause of split ‘private matters’, says ex-chancellor’s officeSat Mar 28 2015 - 01:00
Germanwings crash: Focus on co-pilot’s motivationGerman police search bungalow in Rhineland town where Lubitz lived with his parentsFri Mar 27 2015 - 08:29
Co-pilot’s dream of flying turns into air crash nightmareLocals in Lubitz’s home town struggle to reconcile the man they knew with perpetrator of Germanwings tragedyFri Mar 27 2015 - 01:00
European court hearings expose lack of privacy safeguards for our data‘Whistleblower Edward Snowden alleges that all this data eventually finds its way into the “Prism” servers of the National Security Agency (NSA)’Fri Mar 27 2015 - 00:02
Alps air crash: Investigators seek clues in voice recorderAircraft appears to have been intact on impact with mountains after steep decentThu Mar 26 2015 - 14:27
Investigators could take months to find out why Germanwings plane crashedIncomplete flight data and treacherous mountain conditions hamper inquiryWed Mar 25 2015 - 21:43