Germany

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.
 

A giant aquarium containing around 1,500 tropical fish has burst, flooding a hotel lobby and a nearby street and leaving two people injured, emergency services said.

Thousands of police have raided sites in Germany targeting a far-right “terror group” that allegedly planned to overthrow the government.

Authorities have detained 25 people, including ex-police and military personnel, who allegedly wanted to reinstate a monarchy

The Russian gas pipelines earlier suffered a suspected sabotage attack

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during his annual press conference on Aug. 11 that he does not consider it necessary to introduce a joint ban on Russians entering the EU due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, German newspaper Tagesspiegel reported.

Gas prices have soared after Russia further cut gas supplies to Germany and other central European countries after threatening to earlier this week.

Berlin and Paris torpedoed the 2015 ceasefire deal for Donbass by shielding Kiev’s non-compliance, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said

Kyiv's relations with Germany, which is heavily reliant on Russian energy supplies and also Europe's biggest economy, have been a particular sensitive matter.

After weeks of mounting pressure, the German government will now supply heavy military equipment to Ukraine. DW takes a look at how Berlin's position has changed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says refusing to ban Russian energy imports is a “conscious decision”

In the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Germany is cutting a rather ambivalent figure. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is one major reason why. Can the Social Democrats and the country find its way out from under his shadow?