Germany is tightening border controls. How will it affect the EU?

Germany is tightening border controls. How will it affect the EU?

The immigration crackdown will start next week. What happens to the free movement in the European Schengen zone?

  • bySarah Marsh,Jan Lopatka andAlan Charlish

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Germany’s far-right on track for first regional win since Nazi era

Germany’s far-right on track for first regional win since Nazi era

With a year to go until Germany’s national election,the results look punishing for Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition.

  • bySarah Marsh andThomas Escritt
An anti-migration,leftist renegade is shaking up German politics

An anti-migration,leftist renegade is shaking up German politics

Sahra Wagenknecht is considered,even by her opponents,to be a superb communicator and masterful at touching raw nerves in the population.

  • bySteven Erlanger
Germany to step up deportations after stabbing

Germany to step up deportations after stabbing

Visiting the site of last weekend’s stabbing,which has emboldened his far-right opposition,German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it ‘terrorism against us all’.

  • byRachel More
German police arrest suspect over fatal stabbing rampage
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German police arrest suspect over fatal stabbing rampage

The arrest came 24 hours after the attack that killed three people in the western German town of Solingen. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the incident.

  • byMatthias Inverardi,Petra Wischgoll andTom Sims
Islamic State claims responsibility for mass stabbing at German festival
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Islamic State claims responsibility for mass stabbing at German festival

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people.

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‘No deeper message’:German warship blasts Darth Vader theme in heart of London

‘No deeper message’:German warship blasts Darth Vader theme in heart of London

A bystander captured the spectacle Monday on video,which quickly went viral on social media. The song selection made waves across Europe.

  • byStefanie Dazio
Insider intel:Traveller’s writers share their 22 top discoveries

Insider intel:Traveller’s writers share their 22 top discoveries

Our roaming reporters check their notepads,sharing secret addresses and perennial favourites from their past year of travel.

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Asylum seekers in Germany secretly holidaying in their home country

Asylum seekers in Germany secretly holidaying in their home country

“I’m furious. The lack of consistency here is ruining a lot of things,” said the German commissioner for migration. “Germany must remain cosmopolitan,but not stupid.”

  • byJames Rothwell
A Nazi villa so tainted Berlin can’t give it away

A Nazi villa so tainted Berlin can’t give it away

The former estate of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels is too expensive to keep and perilous to sell. No one knows quite what to do with it.

  • bySarah Maslin Nir
Seven unmissable experiences along Berlin’s dark landmark

Seven unmissable experiences along Berlin’s dark landmark

Though the Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago,its spectre still looms large over the city.

  • byBen Groundwater