Evolutionary psychology, which stresses competition for females, can add another dimension to our understanding of anti-immigrant mood, says Daniel Gros.

WHEN most of us think of today’s Germany, we picture a united and unified country that enjoys widespread prosperity as a result of being the economic powerhouse of Europe.

Germany has the confidence and capacity to lead Europe, but, ahead of Angela Merkel’s expected re-election, that doesn’t mean its partners have to like it, writes John Lloyd.    

European leaders today are expected to give unanimous support to a special declaration that the North would rejoin the EU after Brexit in the event of a vote for Irish reunification.

European leaders could sign off on plans to allow Northern Ireland immediately rejoin the EU in a united Ireland at their summit this weekend.

Enda Kenny has said former taoiseach Bertie Ahern was “wrong” to say Ireland is entitled to negotiate with Britain on Brexit.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny says that when he visits Washington DC he will seek talks between the US Congress and the EU to discuss the impact of Brexit.

It could only happen in England, they said, and of course it could never happen again.

WHAT do you think you ought to read in a ‘very English’ book about post-war Europe, Spies and the Cold War? 

Your recent feature “Rampant cannibalism in German concentration camp” made for sober reading.

IAAF president Seb Coe is in favour of erasing world records in international athletics set by suspected drugs cheats, according to UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner.

Merkel responds to concerns of migrant influx at party congress

A German woman accused of involvement in 10 neo-Nazi murders broke her silence for the first time in four years, telling a court in Munich that she only learned of the deaths after they had taken place.

After the worst week in the history of the sport, IAAF president Seb Coe faces the unenviable task of guiding athletics through crisis and ending the doping culture, writes Cathal Dennehy.

Here's what we recommend to watch on the box tonight.

Germany was fooling itself if it believed the peaceful post-WW2 neighbourhood it helped create transcended the logic of brute force, as the Ukraine crisis reveals, writes Lucian Kim.

GERMANY: The aging mother of Knut, the famous hand-reared polar bear who captured German hearts and the world’s attention in his short life, was put down at Berlin Zoo yesterday because it was said she was blind, deaf, and suffering.

Typically you see the All-Ireland final heralded as the tip of the pyramid, the pinnacle of the GAA year (even if it comes in September).

“No one is impressed by dinosaurs anymore, ”says Claire (Dallas Bryce Howard), the manager of Jurassic World (12A).

WATCH OUT, BMW, a new German rival is on the scene: The sputtering, yet lovable Trabant is getting an electric makeover 25 years after the country’s reunification.

A luxury castle hotel has made an historic new addition to its grounds — two sections of the Berlin Wall.

A German documentary has claimed Russian leader Vladimir Putin regularly subjected his ex-wife to domestic abuse and was seen as a drunken letch by his Soviet superiors in his early days.

At the G20 meeting in 2010, the US, Britain and several other countries decided that quantitative easing was the solution to the world financial crisis. Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, disagreed with everyone else.

Russia sanctions to stay in place for now ‘to give peace a chance’

Gas what you end up watching over Christmas, and I don’t mean your own waistline, expanding softly over your belt like a runaway pudding.

Mary Elise Sarotte

Germany is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell.

Germany’s top public prosecutor has launched an investigation into the bugging of Angela Merkel’s mobile phone by US intelligence in the light of revelations by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, authorities announced last night.

The United States has announced new sanctions on seven Russian government officials and 17 companies with links to President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

The crisis in Ukraine and Crimea has reached such a critical point that patience, but not appeasement, must be the order of the day.

We don’t yet know what Putin’s real agenda is generally with Ukraine and specifically with Crimea. But it echoes the murky events that eventually led to the first global war, writes James G Neuger

It is an indication of how powerful, how unaccountable and secure Russia president Vladimir Putin and his circle of oligarchs feel that they can orchestrate such terrible, anti-democratic violence in Ukraine while their pet project — the incredibly expensive, €37.5bn Olympics at Sochi — offers the world a prime-time insight into modern Russia.

It’s not as prestigious as the track-and-field, but since its inception in 1924 there has been plenty of drama on the slopes, says Jonathan de Burca Butler

WHEN Toby Gilbert decided to emigrate last year, he did not choose Australia over Dublin for sunshine and sandy beaches — he just wanted a few more free hours to see his wife.

GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel, an unflappable pastor’s daughter, is closing in on a third term in Sunday’s general election, cementing her title as the world’s most powerful woman.

ANGELA Merkel has been German chancellor for the last two terms in the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, and is hotly tipped to win a third term though changing partners in a new coalition.

ARTIST Stephen Brandes’ monumental piece, ‘April 22nd — From the Last Travelogue of Albert Sitzfleisch’, dominates the foyer of the Royal Hibernian Academy. His show, part of the RHA’s autumn programme, is satiric, provocative, charming and unsettling.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has absolved herself of blame for the eurozone’s north-south split during the debt crisis, saying she has Europe’s best interests at heart when pressing the need to become globally competitive.

Valley of Unknowing

WHITE Rabbit, Red Rabbit is not your ordinary theatre production.