The German Parliament has backed a rescue package worth up to €100bn for Spain's struggling banks.

An attempt to block to block the eurozone’s permanent rescue fund and Europe’s new fiscal discipline treaty will be heard by Germany’s high court next week.

Germany’s Angela Merkel has insisted that a bad local election defeat for her party will not weaken her as she grapples with Europe’s deepening debt crisis.

The Government has been urged to postpone the referendum on the fiscal treaty following game-changing events in Europe last week.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has declared his unhappiness over the leaking of a sensitive European report about Ireland’s economy that was circulated around the German Parliament.

A Government Minister is accusing Fianna Fáil of being hypocritical for criticising the Government for proposing to increase VAT in December's Budget.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has today confirmed that he intends to raise VAT by two points to 23% in next month's Budget.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny this week has an opportunity to turn his famed ability to connect with ordinary citizens to connect with the country most likely to decide our future — Germany.

Germany's top court has ruled that aid for Greece, and rescue packages for other eurozone countries, was legal.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai again criticised coalition strategy in fighting the stubborn insurgency, saying it produced nothing but civilian deaths.

A lack of political will, not troop shortages, is stopping European countries increasing their forces in Afghanistan, the EU's top military officer declared today.

President Mary McAleese is making a three-day official visit to Germany next week.

A leading member of Germany’s Green party has called for this summer’s World Cup finals to be scrapped if strains of the deadly bird flu virus reach the country.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder today asked the German parliament to hold a vote of confidence, a key step in his plan to call early national elections later this year.

The American designer of Germany’s long-delayed national Holocaust memorial has apologised for a joke that local Jewish leaders said made light of the Nazi gas chambers.