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The current crisis in Catalonia is just one of a number of separatist issues being looked on with disfavour and alarm in Europe’s corridors of power, writes John Lloyd    

RB Leipzig owner Dietrich Mateschitz has revealed his club have turned down a €75m offer for Liverpool target Naby Keita.

FIFA has taken the dramatic step of publishing a controversial internal report into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process after it was leaked to a German newspaper this week.

Qatar's successful bid for the 2022 World Cup looks set to become mired in fresh controversy after the leaking of a secret FIFA report into the 2010 bidding contests.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who has died aged 87

Donald Trump's first meeting with Angela Merkel produced an awkward moment as the US president did not shake the German leader's hand in front of photographers in the Oval Office.

IN a curious twist of fate, the Taoiseach will be the flagbearer of the EU when he meets President Trump at the White House today. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was to have met the President yesterday but snow storms in the US have delayed that meeting until tomorrow.

European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi defended his stimulus policies to critical lawmakers in Berlin, yesterday, while reaffirming the urgency to step up structural reforms.

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Jose Mourinho should be sent to prison over his treatment of Bastian Schweinsteiger, according to a member of world players' union FifPro.

Volkswagen is set to escape fines from the German government even after cheating on emissions tests for years, reflecting a softer political stance that’s increasingly drawing ire following a generous deal for US drivers.

A top member of a rising nationalist party has been criticised after reportedly saying many people would not want Jerome Boateng, a German international footballer whose father was born in Ghana, as their neighbour.

Shares in Fiat Chrysler slumped to a three-month low as its fight with Germany over vehicle emissions escalated after the country’s most-read newspaper reported that the authorities found that the company had cheated.

Germany’s interior ministry dismissed remarks from a populist politician who called for police to be given powers to use firearms against illegal migrants, pointing out such shootings would be illegal.

An internal report by German police describes how women in the western city of Cologne had to run through mobs of drunken men who attacked them during new year’s celebrations, an experience likened to “running the gauntlet”.

Bavarian allies cranked up pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday to reverse her “open-door” refugee policy, saying the deadly attacks in Paris underlined the need for tougher measures to control the influx of migrants.

The bodies of what are believed to be eight babies have been found at an apartment in a Bavarian town, German police said.

Tyson Fury's world heavyweight title fight with Wladimir Klitschko has been postponed after the Ukrainian suffered a calf injury in training.

Former Liverpool defender Markus Babbel believes a “brutal” £29 million transfer fee puts new signing Roberto Firmino under immediate pressure.

Worries over Greece have affected stock markets across Europe once more following reports that the country’s finance minister is not planning to present new bailout proposals to eurozone counterparts later this week.

Germany gave its most explicit warning yet that Greece may eventually leave the euro as EU officials try to hammer out a last-minute deal over bailout funds.

Jurgen Klopp has put Premier League clubs on alert after announcing he will leave Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season.

Borussia Dortmund have called a press conference where it is expected coach Jurgen Klopp will announce he is leaving the club at the end of the season.

A 65-year-old German mother-of-13 is getting ready to give birth again – this time to quadruplets.

German daily Bild and French magazine Paris Match said their reporters have been shown a video they say was taken by someone inside the cabin of the doomed plane shortly before it crashed.

Pilots with a history of depression should not be banned from flying commercial jets, according to a leading British psychiatrist, in a warning against a knee-jerk reaction to the French Alps air disaster.

Germany has dismissed Greek demands to pay World War Two reparations after leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Berlin of using legal tricks to avoid paying compensation for the Nazi occupation of his country.

German chancellor Angela Merkel faces increased dissent within her governing coalition over extending Greece’s bailout as part of her goal of keeping the eurozone intact.

The leader of the fast-growing German anti-Muslim movement Pegida resigned after a photo of him posing as Hitler, and reports that he called refugees “scumbags”, prompted prosecutors to investigate him for inciting racial hatred.

A minute's silence has been observed across France and around the world in solidarity with those affected by the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

A newly-published surveillance video shows the fatal attack on a young woman after she defended two teenage girls from male harassment.