Non-voters and young people turned out for the AfD and far left, depriving the CDU of an enthusiastic mandate

There is a major operation in Berlin following a terrifying knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial.

Belongings strewn on ground after car drives through crowd in Munich

German officials faced mounting criticism on Sunday over the failure to prevent a deadly Christmas market attack in Magdeburg as it emerged that the 50-year-old suspect had made online death threats against German citizens and had a history of quarrelling with state authorities.

German officials hunted for clues on Saturday after a 50-year-old Saudi national with a history of anti-Islamic comments drove his car into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing five people, including a small child, and injuring more than 200 others.

Kiev is against Western leaders talking to Moscow about negotiating an end to the conflict

The two leaders have discussed the Ukraine conflict, with the German chancellor calling on Moscow to hold peace talks with Kiev

Olaf Scholz finally runs out of patience with Christian Lindner

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday promised a full investigation after what appeared to be a recording of confidential army talks on the Ukraine war was posted on Russian social media, in a potentially huge embarrassment for Berlin.

A discussion between senior German military officers was intercepted, the nation’s defense ministry has confirmed

A draft agreement has already been prepared, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claims

The East is up, Germany is down, Britain is out

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France would not be taking in any of the migrants who arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week. FRANCE 24 looks back at six years of French U-turns on immigration policies.

Progress on enlargement, the budget and governance will be close to impossible without harmony between Paris and Berlin

Ambiguity has held Kyiv’s allies together so far – but it will divide them when the conflict’s final stages approach.