Polls indicate German federal election will return Merkel-style coalition
Christian Democratic Union likely to finish first and ask centre-left Social Democratic Party to form centrist alliance, sidelining Olaf Scholz
Germany
Sabotaged car exhausts make for unlikely form of election interference as Germany heads to the polls on Sunday
Russian agents suspected of stoking anti–Green sentiment with vandalism and bumper stickers of party leader
Germany votes: Far-right AfD looks to broaden its base
Once an eastern regional force, the party is building broader support
Germany to set up centralised deportation facilities in bid to tackle migration
Opposition politicians denounce ‘Dublin Centres’ as pre-election gestures by a government that has lost control of asylum process
Germany votes: ‘I have a bad feeling about this election’
Party founded to help workers improve their lives through political action and involvement is struggling amid growing resistance among voters to listen and engage
Europeans warn of malevolent ‘spirit of Munich’ as imperfect peace talks loom over Ukraine
Approach of new Trump administration a necessary ‘cold shower’ for EU, says Czech president
Mother and daughter (2) die from injuries after Munich car-ramming attack
Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the scene of the attack on Saturday
Taoiseach rejects Zelenskiy call for ‘armed forces of Europe’
Micheál Martin says Ireland continues to stand with Ukraine but ‘a European army isn’t on the agenda’
Golden rule of Munich Security Conference goes out window as Vance lectures on ‘enemy within’
Czech president says European countries cannot be excluded from Ukraine ceasefire talks if they are to take more responsibility for security
European leaders left in stunned silence as JD Vance harangues them over approach to far right
Munich Security Conference had expected to hear Trump’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine
The Swiss-based ex-banker who leads Germany’s far right: Alice Weidel plays the long game
Party officials feel they can secure a blocking minority in the next Bundestag, the point when Weidel will become Germany’s most uncomfortable and unavoidable politician
By flirting with the far right, Europe’s centre-right parties play a dangerous game
Worldview: History suggests that such pacts with the devil end badly
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account
Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same
Zelenskiy says peace deal possible only after plan is agreed with US and Europe
US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’
Man confesses to Munich car ramming that injured 36, prosecutor says
Afghan national (24) arrested after car ploughed into demonstrators gathered in city centre
Munich car attack: eerie echoes of other violent incidents in Germany
Suspect (24) is detained after incident at a trade union demonstration in the city
German elections: Olaf Scholz denies his ‘court jester’ jibe was racist
Berlin’s culture minister says remarks by chancellor were ‘humiliating’
As Dresden commemorates its darkest day, some are hoping to rewrite history
Far-right parties are pushing a new approach which casts Germans as the main victims of the second World War
A neuropsychologist’s view on Donald Trump: We’re seeing the impact of power on the human brain
US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould
The fall and fall of Germany’s liberal Free Democrats
Ahead of the February 23rd federal election, the party is on 4 per cent in all polls – one point short of the 5 per cent hurdle to enter the Bundestag
Why is the US economy so much stronger than Europe’s?
Several reasons for the weak performance of Europe and the US’s better-than-expected one
Scholz and Merz leave voters unimpressed after televised debate
Chancellor fails to make up ground two weeks ahead of election day
Ireland’s first Michelin star: ‘It made the front page of the London Times, but only got a mention in the Examiner’
Declan and Patsy Ryan recall receiving the restaurant industry’s highest accolade in 1974 for their Arbutus Lodge
Irish star conductor David Brophy on his big new job in Germany: ‘You only become competent when you’re 60′
The Dubliner is thrilling critics at his new musical home in Cologne but he still finds time to worry about Ireland’s cultural capital
Has Friedrich Merz, the man who would be chancellor of Germany, really opened the ‘doors to hell’?
As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily basis
After the split, Germany’s Left party goes back to basics in bid to rise again
Sahra Wagenknecht’s populist BSW alliance falters after its anti-migration programme initially chimed with voters
The Nazi Mind and The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: alliance between ‘monsters’ and ‘ordinary people’
Meticulously researched, brilliantly written and passionately argued, these books are indispensable and timely
EU leaders agree but disagree on defence
Analysis: Most EU members want to co-operate on defence, but have different ideas about what co-operation means
Bundestag MPs reject migration bill by Christian Democratic Union and backed by far-right Alternative for Germany
Result was a shock for CDU leader Friedrich Merz
Eerie silence in Bundestag as far-right AfD sees chink of light
Opposition accepts AfD support for hot-button migration proposal
As German election nears, Scholz accuses rival of courting populists and far right
Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz blames chancellor for ‘law and order’ crisis
Auschwitz survivors mark 80th anniversary of camp’s liberation
‘Last milestone anniversary’ will see political leaders, including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, listening to survivors’ voices rather than making speeches
Holocaust, the 1978 TV series that helped Germany break the silence about its past
As the world remembers the Holocaust, some Germans see a period ahead that echoes the widespread amnesia in the postwar period
‘I’m appalled we’re going through senseless anti-Semitism again,’ says survivor of Auschwitz women’s orchestra
Television: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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