Real Madrid have officially demanded the immediate resignation of LaLiga President Javier Tebas after he compared the club’s management and media output to the propaganda methods used by Nazi Germany. The explosive escalation in tensions began on Friday when Tebas took to social media to lash out at articles publishedContinue Reading

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 the continent Support for far-right parties has been growing across Europe, with radical right, populist parties in coalitionContinue Reading

Arsenal midfielder Mikel Merino has revealed how a simple, last-minute change of seats on Borussia Dortmund’s team bus likely saved his life during a terrifying bomb attack in Germany in 2017. Merino, just 20 years old at the time, was travelling with his Dortmund teammates to the stadium for theContinue Reading

The late Christoph Schlingensief was one of German art’s great provocateurs. Can his B-Movie horror aesthetics still shock us into thinking anew about media power, colonialism, and the far right? Christoph Schlingensief certainly knew how to provoke. “Fury at German play that shows Queen as a Nazi,” read the SundayContinue Reading

The final season of the TV epic Babylon Berlin is taking us back to 1933. Our confidence is falling apart, but that’s where the parallels end There is one experience we in Germany can all find mildly satisfying this autumn, as we watch the dark and terrifying final season ofContinue Reading

As 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 stalls Unpacking assorted tubs of carrot sticks and salad, Keira Knightley winces apologetically. “I justContinue Reading

Berlin’s allies are right to be wary of a sudden surge in German military spending that shuns cooperation with them When the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, visited the White House earlier this year for a high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump, he invited a Washington-based German researcher little known outside expertContinue Reading

Former Germany striker Oliver Bierhoff has backed Liverpool midfielder Florian Wirtz to make a future move to FC Barcelona. Bierhoff stated in Sport Bild that Wirtz would be an ideal fit for Barcelona under German manager Hansi Flick, noting that Wirtz would find plenty of space and brilliant teammates inContinue Reading