Kate Connolly

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

Three German-Russian dual citizens have gone on trial in Munich accused of spying on behalf of the Kremlin and planning attacks on critical military infrastructure and industry. The alleged spies are said to have found code words for military goods and gathered confidential information about an oil refinery in Bavaria and a US military training area near the town of Grafenwöhr in the east of the state.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi |Kate Connolly |Shaun Walker |Jon Henley |Deborah Cole | +1 more

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWinston Churchill’s great-great-grandson Alexander Churchill, 10, lit the VE Day 80th candle of peace during a service at Westminster Abbey today. The youngster, dressed in a suit and tie, stepped forward and made his way up the steps in front of the altar, where he was handed a flame to light the large cream church candle.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly |Caroline Davies

Eighty years ago today, on 8 May 1945, the second world war in Europe came to an end with the unconditional surrender of Germany’s armed forces. The number of people who remember the war – and how it finished – decreases every year, even as European security feels ever more precarious. Here, seven people, aged between 85 and 100, from Estonia, Poland, Britain, Germany and Romania, talk to the Guardian about their memories.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is to be played out of office by a military band who will perform tunes chosen by him that are intended to sum up his mood and political life. Scholz will bow out to the Beatles, Johann Sebastian Bach and an Otis Redding hit made famous by Aretha Franklin. The 66-year-old will hand over office on Tuesday to Friedrich Merz, whose centre-right conservatives won Germany’s federal election in February, and who will lead a coalition with Scholz’s Social Democrats.

1 month ago | eldiario.es | Kate Connolly

Durante unas horas solo las socias y los socios de elDiario.es pueden leer este artículo. Gracias por apoyarnos 'Mujer enfadada', dice el tatuaje que Heidi Reichinnek tiene en el antebrazo derecho, el último que se ha hecho. Según la diputada y líder de Die Linke (La izquierda), de 36 años, es un “regalo” que se hizo a sí misma por la inesperada recuperación de su partido en el Parlamento alemán tras las elecciones de febrero.