The Latest Breaking News from Berlin

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lobbied this week for South America to prioritize cooperating with Germany in its commodities sector as Berlin joins the race for critical minerals, with lithium key for its auto industry.

While Germany’s Olaf Scholz was dragging his feet over tanks for Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland gained moral ground

‘I never heard how he is going to protect sports from war propaganda if he returns Russian athletes to competitions’

Niko Kovac’s heart is ‘attached to Hertha’ but his surging Wolfsburg showed them little mercy in a Bundesliga rout

The West's move to send tanks to Ukraine was greeted enthusiastically from Kyiv, Berlin and Washington

They are expensive and hard to maintain. They run on jet fuel. And they are difficult to operate.

After much pondering and perhaps prevaricating, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has broken with a seven-decades-old non-aggression policy by greenlighting tank deliveries to Ukraine. How momentous is this moment? Did Scholz dither and cave to pressure, or did he drive a hard bargain to make sure Berlin did not go out…

German chancellor’s hesitation about sending Leopard 2 vehicles finds sympathy among public

Washington joins Berlin in agreeing to send tanks – but offer will only go so far to keep Russians at bay