Media reports have named the suspect as a 35-year-old man who attended classes at the Örebro campus The press conference ends with no questions. But police investigators are now giving interviews to individual media. Continue reading...
Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful author Gwen Watkins, who has died aged 101, deciphered German air force codes at Bletchley Park during the second world war, helping RAF and US...
Markets recover some losses after Trump agreed to delay new duties on Mexico goods, sparking hopes of a reprieve Global stock markets came under pressure after Donald Trump signed off on new US tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico,...
Prospective chancellor takes startlingly aggressive line against those protesting against gamble with AfD The German conservative opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, whose party is widely tipped to win this month’s general election,...
Alternatives to London, Paris, Milan and New York champion independent and often outspoken designers In a former multistorey car park, models in elegant tailoring walk the catwalk soundtracked by Kate Bush. It looks and sounds like one...
The CDU’s Friedrich Merz has shattered the taboo that had underpinned German politics since the war. The unthinkable is now more possible The tectonic plates are shifting in German politics. A momentous past week has plunged the country...
Berlin correspondent Kate Connolly charts the rise of Alice Weidel, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel is a politician of contradictions: a German nationalist who lives in Switzerland; a...
Angry rallies in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich accuse Friedrich Merz of cooperating with AfD Tens of thousands of people marched in Germany on Sunday to protest against the decision by the centre-right leader – and...
Silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold at Stuttgart auction for highest amount ever made by a grand prix car A streamlined Mercedes raced by the Formula One greats Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 set a record for a grand prix...
Hardline agendas, especially on immigration, are copied by mainstream conservatives in vain effort to win back votes - but it’s not working Far-right parties could become the largest force on the right in Europe within a decade, experts...
Greens and SPD earlier refused to support the Influx Limitation Act amid fierce criticism from Merkel over Merz’s cooperation with AfD in Berlin The Bundestag debate has been delayed for half an hour on request of the CDU, thought to be...
Plan to tighten migration policy was brought by the opposition leader Friedrich Merz with the help of AfD The German parliament has rejected a bill to tighten immigration controls brought by the frontrunner to be the next chancellor,...
Albrecht Weinberg ‘horrified’ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motion A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor has said he will return his federal order of merit to the German president in protest over MPs passing an...
Research shows voters losing faith in traditional centre-left and centre-right to deliver meaningful change Voters in western democracies are turning away from mainstream political parties and towards populists because they are losing...
Ex-chancellor makes rare intervention to criticise her own party for passing asylum policy with support of AfD The former German chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised Friedrich Merz, her eventual successor as leader of the country’s...
This live blog is now closed, you can find more of our European news coverage here A spokesperson for the European Commission has just been asked about the German motion at their daily midday press briefing: Here is his answer in full:...
Reduction by quarter of a point to 2.75% aims to stimulate economy, which stagnated in last quarter of 2024 The European Central Bank has cut interest rates to ease the cost of borrowing across the 20-member eurozone as growth stagnates...
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? After the second world war, Germany’s contrition and radical self-cleansing, under allied supervision, as the chief...
Opposition leader Friedrich Merz accused of breaking longstanding political firewall against far-right populists The leader of Germany’s conservative opposition has been backed in his controversial plans to restrict migration by the...
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here Angela Giuffrida writes from Rome There’s much debate in Italy today as the country absorbs the news that prime minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation over the...