Olaf Scholz

Derek Scally on the stories that caught his eye including how talk about mental health in Ireland rarely results in action

The carmaker’s struggles reflect the difficult time the country’s once-vaunted manufacturing base is going through

Representative survey out this week indicated just 23 per cent of Germans would like Chancellor to return for a second term

Excluding Alternative for Germany (AfD) from power after its strong showing on Sunday will enable it to rally support against the ‘undemocratic’ established parties

Far-right win raises fresh doubt over Scholz’s ability to win second term in next year’s federal elections

A political earthquake, exactly a year ahead of federal elections, sees the AfD top the poll in Thuringia

Concerns about immigration, the war in Ukraine and energy are reshaping the country’s political landscape

PM’s meeting with French president follows recent visit to Germany where he said he was not ‘reversing Brexit’ amid plans for treaty

Chancellor Olaf Scholz vows to tackle exploitation of system while AfD co-leader demands five-year asylum moratorium

Attack at city festival in Solingen killed three and left eight injured

Eight injured, five of them seriously, police say, as investigators look into terror motive

Berlin’s domestic austerity measures spark fears of military aid to Kyiv being halved

Deal between long-time adversaries – negotiated mostly by spies – secured release of several prisoners scattered across Russia, the US and Europe

Irish passport holder Paul Whelan among those released along with journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva

Growing concern as 5.5m recipients at present cost almost €46bn annually, nearly 6% of the total federal budget

Since Berlin became the capital again 25 years ago, German ingenuity, once applied to solving problems, has been applied to finding excuses. No wonder national team manager Julian Nagelsmann decided to give the whole country a pep talk

Berlin says it will not be intimidated by Moscow’s ‘hybrid war’ against Kyiv’s allies

Admission by minister for defence comes as Olaf Scholz prepares to tell Nato summit Germany is meeting obligation to spend at least two 2% of GDP on defence

Budget row has ballooned into another existential standoff for Germany’s three government parties

Brussels moves ahead with additional duties of up to 25% despite opposition from Germany