With support for far right politics well established across Europe, how might upcoming elections shape its future? Europe correspondents Jon Henley and Ashifa Kassam answered Reddit users’ questions about their reporting from...
Read MoreAs the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star Luke Thompson talk about the paranoia at its heart, the cost of theatre tickets nowadays – and their fury at ringtones in the stallsUnpacking...
Read MoreAfter his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even strangerOn a balmy, quiet evening in June 2020, Otto’s elderly mother, Doria,...
Read MoreEuropean Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’Zack Polanski may rue lack of leadership when Greens needed him to actThe English and Welsh Greens...
Read MoreIn a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthroughWith your art...
Read MoreGrievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer tooThe fear that a fascist, far-right movement would rise to power again in Germany has been with me since...
Read MoreCustomers seeking greens at one Berlin outlet are dealing with some very local supply chains indeedWalking into the Felix Thomas REWE supermarket in Lankwitz, Berlin, customers are immediately presented with a choice of greens:...
Read MorePoll to take place in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, where Bauhaus blossomed a century ago – and where AfD is promising ‘patriotic culture policy’ if it winsThe city of Dessau, where the Bauhaus design school flourished a century ago,...
Read MoreRightwing voices seize on plans to offer Black children an exclusive afternoon at an outdoor pool in the German capitalIt was meant to be an outing for Black children in Berlin and their families, offering them an exclusive...
Read MoreDroughts that were once a century now happen every year, and the impact on wildlife, industrial output and culture itself is catastrophicLast week, 186 passengers had to be evacuated from the cruise ship Viking Ullur, after it...
Read MoreAlternative für Deutschland, topping polls ahead of state elections, accuses government of failing to tackle Islamist radicalismEurope live – latest updatesGerman officials have called for a tightening of laws for known...
Read MorePassenger Ljubisa Karović was nearly sucked out of his seat when Boeing 737-800’s window blew out on flight from GreeceFor nervous flyers, it sounds like the stuff of nightmares; for most, only contemplated in an action movie....
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