Safety first Sir — Public safety must be paramount. Less than two weeks before the Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin in Beijing, China has seen an uptick in confirmed Covid-19 infections, ...

The US and its Nato allies are moving to bulk up their military commitments in the Baltics and eastern Europe as the standoff with Russia over Ukraine deepens. Denmark is sending fighter jets to Lithu...

“Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler/... If you think old England’s done...” — the lyrics of a popular war-time ditty encapsulate the tensions around European identity a...

Germany’s naval chief has resigned after he stirred controversy by warning that China was not a “nice country” and saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin was looking for and &l...

On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials of the Nazi bureaucracy met in a villa on Lake Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin. Nibbles were served and washed down with cognac. There was only one...

A court in Germany found a former Syrian security officer guilty on Thursday of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to life in prison. He is the highest-ranking Syrian official to be held accoun...

The Lufthansa stewardess on the flight from London to Munich handed me a very small yellow-wrapped bar of chocolate, the usual ration. When she saw that I was working my way through a long German docu...

Social Democrat Olaf Scholz was sworn in as German chancellor on Wednesday, ending Angela Merkel’s 16 years of conservative rule and paving the way for his coalition government that has promised...

Germany decided on Thursday to bar the unvaccinated from all but the most essential business as the world scrambled to curb the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The US reported its first case of c...

The mounting majoritarianism visible in politics is a characteristic feature of the times we live in. This force, manifest in riots, pogroms and lynching, preserves itself through narrow, intolerant g...