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  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Janan Ganesh
    Liberals must learn from the Merkel years

    An entire worldview, not just one leader, stands tainted

  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    Sylvie Kauffmann
    Germany is struggling to give shape to a new foreign policy

    Critics complain that Chancellor Olaf Scholz cannot say what the much-vaunted ‘turning point’ really amounts to

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Olaf Scholz says partnership with Putin’s Russia is ‘inconceivable’

    German chancellor pledges new ‘Marshall plan’ for Ukraine after trip to Kyiv and adviser’s controversial comments

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Scholz aide’s comments on future links with Russia trigger dismay

    German foreign policy adviser Jens Plötner says relations with Moscow as big an issue as arms to Kyiv

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    German finance minister rejects 2035 combustion engine ban

    Lindner’s stance on EU plans set to cause ructions within Berlin coalition

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    Merkel’s lack of regrets illustrates the fallacies of Germany’s Russia policy

    For far too long politicians, businesspeople and voters refused to face up to the ominous nature of Putin’s style of rule

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Angela Merkel
    Merkel censured by Germany’s highest court for intervening in 2020 regional poll

    Ruling is an embarrassment for former chancellor six months after she retired from politics

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Combative Merkel denies appeasing Putin over Ukraine

    Germany’s interests meant finding ‘modus vivendi’ with Russia, says ex-chancellor in first interview since leaving office

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    LNG revolution: Germany’s plan to wean itself off Russian gas takes shape

    Three terminals could be built but the plants rub up against tight global market and Berlin’s long-term energy strategy

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    Germany
    Germany approves €100bn fund to modernise its armed forces

    Historic Bundestag vote reflects fundamental shift in defence and security policy triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Stefan Auer
    Ukraine’s fight for freedom exposes ‘sovereign Europe’ as a delusion

    Central Europeans understand better than France or Germany the connection between national independence and security

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Germany offers €9-a-month public transport ticket

    Cut-price deal allows nationwide travel as Berlin acts to soften the impact of rising inflation and expensive fuel

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    The Big Read
    How war in Ukraine convinced Germany to rebuild its army

    With the Bundeswehr at breaking point, the government has pledged a €100bn military spending spree — will it be enough?

  • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
    News in-depthWhistleblowing
    Germany’s corporate whistleblowers stuck in legal nowhere land

    Three years after EU directive, activists say legislation aimed at boosting safeguards should go further

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Gerhard Schröder steps down as Rosneft chair after Ukraine backlash

    Former spy Matthias Warnig also quits board of oil giant after controversy in Germany

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Gerhard Schröder to be stripped of German parliamentary privileges

    Move by governing parties comes as anger grows over former chancellor’s refusal to distance himself from Kremlin

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Scholz suffers election setback in North Rhine-Westphalia

    Losses in Germany’s most populous state come amid criticism of chancellor’s response to Ukraine war

  • Sunday, 8 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Scholz vows to continue sending heavy weapons to Ukraine

    History shows need to stand up to Russian aggression, German chancellor says

  • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
    Europe Express
    Germany scrambles to change its Russia policy

    Ukrainians worry that Berlin’s impulse to ‘understand’ Moscow hasn’t gone away

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Germany’s Olaf Scholz struggles to get his message across on Ukraine

    Attacked for foot-dragging, the chancellor has gone on the offensive to explain his strategy

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    Germany has a special responsibility to stop Putin’s evil

    Hesitant military support for Ukraine is exposing weaknesses in the SPD-led coalition and government structures

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Scholz defends German decision not to supply heavy weapons to Kyiv

    Chancellor has ruled out shipping tanks and helicopters despite pleas from Ukraine

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Wirecard AG
    German spies shunned offer to meet Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek in Moscow

    Intelligence service feared approach last year by middleman with suspected links to Russia’s FSB agency was a trap

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    German economy
    EU ban on Russian energy would spark ‘sharp recession’ in Germany

    Top economists’ forecast of 400,000 jobs lost could offer Olaf Scholz cover to resist full embargo including oil and gas

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    German president scraps Ukraine visit after admitting he would not be welcome

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier was renowned for strong ties with Russia in previous role as foreign minister

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