Germany

The country has a reputation for doing things better. But Berlin’s disastrous new airport shows that given a chance, it can stuff things up just as badly as everyone else.

There are different kinds of anger - some good and some bad. The right kind of anger can be valuable.

The country's curious election has changed everything.. we just have to wait to see how it has changed.

How Germany's influence has grown in the world since the end of World War II.

The country is usually seen as a force for stability and symbol of solidity on the international stage. But is that actually so?

The country has a reputation for being tech- and risk-averse. But a new generation of entrepreneurs are proving that is no longer the case.

A 22-year-old from Frankfurt has become one of TikTok’s biggest stars. SOPHIA DEBOICK explains the simple charm behind his success.. and what it says about his country.

Lauded abroad but not always loved at home. What will be the legacy of the chancellor who has ruled Germany since 2005?

Post-war Germany has been characterised by good governance and solid leadership. But as the country goes to the polls to replace Angela Merkel, Germans – and the wider world – fear its good run is coming to an end.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Two of Germany’s candidates for Chancellor are running in the same constituency – home to the super rich and celebrities.

Angela Merkel has taught Germans to crave stability... but they are still turning away from her party.

Gerd Müller, who died earlier this month, was not only a Bayern Munich icon but a man who gave Germans their pride again. So when he fell, club and country helped pick him up By ROB HUGHES

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

More weird news from Europe, including a fake Kanye West gig in a field near Paris, a cow-riding German and the Austrian punk singer who vaccinates his own fans

Esther Loewy lied when she told an orchestra conductor she could play the accordion, and it was a lie that saved her life, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

A mission to archive fanzines, flyers, badges and the ephemera of punk, techno, hip-hop and more is underway in Berlin. By DANIEL SCHNEIDER

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on his first reading of one of the most important books of the 20th century

A vaccination centre in Sonneberg, central Germany, southern Thuringia, increased its footfall by nearly 80 per cent by offering a free bratwurst with each jab

SUNA ERDEM reports on a sleepy area of Germany, devoid of big cities and obvious structural advantages, whose economic success is defying orthodoxy and attracting attention as a model for levelling up left-behind regions

Otto Lilienthal was drawn to the sky by his idealism and his experience of war. It was ultimately a fatal attraction

The country's tragic floods might have been expected to boost support for the Greens ahead of September's elections. But this doesn't appear to have happened

In his younger days, Billy Wilder was a journalist in Europe. A new book of his writings doesn’t give much of a glimpse of the continent, but does provide insights into his later career

Berlin journalist Annette von Broecker’s life has spanned her city's division and reunification. Sixty years ago this summer, she was on the scene as the Wall went up. She talks to JOHN KAMPFNER about those momentous moments, with photographs from a dramatic month that gripped the world.

The city is seriously considering proposals to seize apartments from landlords to resolve its housing crisis. Is it an extreme throwback to its communist days, or a bold move that could offer a solution to other European cities? Sunset on a summer’s day in Tempelhofer Feld, the former central Berlin airport that’s been turned into a sprawling […]

Attack adverts showing Green party candidate for chancellor Annalena Baerbock as Moses with a list of 10 commandments have caused uproar in Germany Readers of largely sober and serious German newspapers were met with some surprising content recently: Full-page adverts dominated by a photo of the Green Party candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, dressed as […]

He infuriated Hitler, won over Churchill and de Gaulle and inspired one of the central characters in Casablanca. So why do we know so little about pan-European visionary Count Coudenhove-Kalergi? The story of uniting Europe goes back a long way before 1950 and the Schuman Declaration. But there is a piece of that history after the […]

The German Greens have confirmed Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor in September’s election, during a party conference in Berlin. Receiving a near unanimous 98.5%, Baerbock accepted, saying that she predicted a “duel” with Germany’s CDU-CSU conservatives.  “For the first time in decades, real change is in the air,” she told the 688 Greens delegates […]