Derek Scally
Journalist at Irish Times
Irish Times Berlin correspondent and author of #1 Bestseller "The Best Catholics in the World". Order from Dubray Books here: https://t.co/Jmsrby0jmf
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
German chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised long-range weapons to assist Ukraine in defending its territory and European freedom, and to fight Russian “aggression and militant revisionism”. The long-awaited German shift in policy, after 1,189 days of conflict, followed talks in Berlin with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Room 101 of the Berlin district court is a gloomy place of grey linoleum, wooden panelling, grand brass lamps and a huge chandelier. Sitting upright at the wooden defence table was a young woman with black hair and anxious dark eyes.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Four former Volkswagen executives have been found guilty of fraud for their roles in the decade-old “Dieselgate” scandal. After nearly four years in court, their trial ended on Monday with jail time for two executives: diesel development manager Jens Hadler and Hanno Jelden, head of drive electronics. Two other former employees received suspended sentences from the court in Braunschweig, near the VW headquarters in Wolfsburg.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, Poland’s two presidential hopefuls marched through Warsaw with armies of supporters. The two candidates are neck-and-neck in polls, ramping up still further stakes in what all agree is a landmark battle – not just for power in Poland but its path in the EU and destiny in Nato. Warsaw police said about 150,000 people turned out to support the capital’s liberal mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, a 53-year-old candidate of the ruling, centrist Civic Coalition (KO).
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Gerhard Schröder looked every bit the elder statesman, and in no way a political pariah, when he appeared this week in Lower Saxony’s state parliament in Hanover. The 81-year-old ex-chancellor, lawyer and Russian energy lobbyist has been suffering from burnout, according to his doctor. But Tuesday’s election of a new Lower Saxon state premier – a role Schröder filled for eight years until his election as chancellor in 1998 – was a special occasion worth rallying for.
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