Edward Snowden finds an unlikely admirer in former Stasi agentMemories of the Gestapo and Stasi inform the debate on surveillance in GermanyFri Jul 05 2013 - 01:00
EU leaders agree additional €2bn in funding to tackle youth unemploymentBerlin summit agrees on proposals EU members ‘should consider implementing’Thu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
Berlin bakery chain gives lesson in rolling out jobs for youthsSteinecke, run almost exclusively by apprentices, is a good example of why Germany doesn’t have a youth unemployment problemThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
At best a welcome recognition of Europe’s jobs crisisIdeological, cultural and economic differences make agreement on solutions to youth unemployment a huge challengeThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
Kenny confident Anglo files will become subject of public discourseGovernment was unaware of the extent of files about the banking collapse in Department of Finance’s possessionThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
Saarland in a spin as Irish dance dynamo departsDonlon Dance Company became region’s cultural calling cardWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
‘Bugging friends is unacceptable’: Germany reacts to surveillance claimsCabinet minister questions the future of trade talks between EU and USTue Jul 02 2013 - 01:00
Post-war food donations led to album of thanks from starving German children to ‘you Irelanders’Drawings and rhymes sent by German schoolchildren to their Irish benefactors survive nearly 70 years onMon Jul 01 2013 - 08:17
The Warsaw act to honour Jewish lifeWarsaw’s striking Museum of the History of Polish Jews documents the past glories of the country’s Jewish population and could be a keystone in its Jewish futureMon Jul 01 2013 - 01:00
Former bank executives may face ban from Central BankGovernor Patrick Honohan says legal action is being consideredMon Jul 01 2013 - 01:00
Merkel unusually blunt on Anglo tapes: ‘I have nothing but contempt’Furious chancellor expresses contempt for disaparaging Anglo references to GermanySat Jun 29 2013 - 01:01
Kenny calls on senior figures to give information on AngloSpeculation grows Kenny may secure EPP nomination to role of commission presidentSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
Anglo tapes have damaged Ireland’s reputation - KennyGerman chancellor Angela Merkel says she regards information disclosed in tapes with contemptFri Jun 28 2013 - 01:25
EU leaders focus on entrenched economic problemsSummit attempts to take advantage of a lull in the debt crisisFri Jun 28 2013 - 01:00
Europe expects Ireland to exit bailout without a deal for AIB and the Bank of IrelandConnection between Ireland’s sovereign and banking debts remains intactThu Jun 27 2013 - 22:17
German media fury at jibes of Anglo bankersFears of anti-Irish backlash on any bank dealThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Austrian students file legal complaint against Irish operations of Facebook and AppleGroup alleges companies broke EU law when sharing data with US authoritiesThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Michael Noonan optimistic on EU banking agreementEU leaders will today discuss banking union, a year after pledge to break link between sovereign and banking debtThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Pressure mounts to secure EU budget dealTaoiseach flies to Brussels for special meetingThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Complaint filed against Irish subsidiaries of Apple, FacebookStudent group plans to use firms’ tax structures against themWed Jun 26 2013 - 12:14
Germans unhappy as Anglo ‘mocking’ makes front pageBild says bankers made fun of savers’ naïvetéWed Jun 26 2013 - 07:20
Tapes ‘show the hubris the bank managers felt’Recordings suggesting Anglo officials celebrated her displeasure with a burst of Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles is a serious insult to German earsWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Merkel election manifesto a ‘fiscal fairytale’German chancellor’s promise of billions in new welfare spending criticisedTue Jun 25 2013 - 01:17
Bundesbank chief cites limits on ECB bond-buying programmeWeidmann insists ECB has not committed unlimited financial resources to planTue Jun 25 2013 - 01:01
Germany’s Christian Democrats concerned Merkel may win general election but lose powerSenior CDU fear opposition Social Democrats may spurn another coalition following September general electionSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
Berlin and Moscow at loggerheads over stolen artMerkel trip to St Petersburg museum temporarily cancelled over Red Army looting spatSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
Germany eyes legislative change to allow expanded ESM roleMerkel unlikley to push for any change to facilitate recapitalising banks directly ahead of electionFri Jun 21 2013 - 20:57
Banking union a ‘credibility test’ for Europe, says KennyNoonan says Ireland is pressing strongly for resolutionThu Jun 20 2013 - 22:10
Euro finance ministers agree to consider retro-active recapitalisationIreland’s campaign to recoup bank bailout funds receives boostThu Jun 20 2013 - 13:34
You might have heard of couchsurfing. Now try bikesurfingIn Berlin, Irishman Graham Pope has adapted the ‘couchsurfing’ principle to bikesThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Obama vows to move beyond ‘cold war nuclear postures’ in Berlin speechUS president pledges to reduce by up to a third the US weapons arsenal and to encourage Russia to do sameThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Obama plays down concern over US surveillanceUS president insists encroachment on privacy is ‘strictly limited’Wed Jun 19 2013 - 14:43
Two ghosts will loom large over Obama’s highly anticipated speech at Brandenberg gate todayJohn F Kennedy’s speech half a century ago promised US solidarity to West Berliners living on the chilliest front in the cold warWed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00
Asmussen seeks end for zombie banksECB board member call for a European bank wind-up fund financed by a banking levyTue Jun 18 2013 - 01:14
Political career of Oskar Lafontaine ends after German Left party showdownVeteran politician humiliated after pressing for euro exit policyMon Jun 17 2013 - 01:00
Merkel challenger warns Ireland on ‘legal tax evasion’ and solidaritySocial Democrat Peer Steinbrück advises elimination of ‘legal tax evasion’ by multinationalsFri Jun 14 2013 - 01:00
Prussian palace in Berlin rises from the ashesGermany begins rebuilding of demolished palace to serve as museum for non-European artThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:19
German court considers ECB bond-buying policyEmergency liquidity to Irish banks was hidden state financing, says economistThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:00
EU democracy ‘gone to the dogs’, German court toldCountry’s highest court hears criticism of sovereign bond-buying programmeTue Jun 11 2013 - 23:11
ECB under fire for allegedly breaching its mandateGerman court in Karlsruhe to consider ECB’s role in Irish promissory note dealTue Jun 11 2013 - 13:12
ECB’s Asmussen warns German court not to undermine euroComments come ahead of two-day hearing in constitutional court on ‘outright monetary transaction’ provisionTue Jun 11 2013 - 01:00
Bank rescue fund deal unlikely this year, says KennyIssue to be negotiated ‘towards end of year and into next year’, says TaoiseachSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
Finnish doubts about EU bailout politics expressed loudly and frequentlyAnalysis: in mapping Ireland’s bailout exit it’s crucial to look beyond Berlin to HelsinkiSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
Kenny refuses to enter Rehn row with IMF‘Decisiveness, clarity and courage are required,’ says TaoiseachSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
Kenny declines to row into EU and IMF dispute over Greek bailoutOlli Rehn says troika partner did not support early debt restructuringFri Jun 07 2013 - 13:10
German court rules gay couples should have equal taxation rightsDecision puts Merkel in difficult position in what could be an electoral minefieldFri Jun 07 2013 - 01:06
Enda Kenny in Lithuania and Latvia for presidency handoverTaoiseach expresses “hope and belief” focus is on breaking deadlock on agreeing EU’s seven-year budgetFri Jun 07 2013 - 01:00
Kenny urges agreement on stalled EU budgetStruggling European economies cannot afford to wait for deal, Taoiseach says in LatviaThu Jun 06 2013 - 14:13
Kenny demands Coalition parties throw weight behind Seanad referendumTaoiseach challenges Labour whip Stagg as Tuffy vows to campaign 'vigorously' for No voteThu Jun 06 2013 - 10:19
