Berlin correspondent for The Telegraph covering Germany, Poland, the Baltics and Scandinavia. Previously in Jerusalem and London. Also on Ukraine: The Latest.

Berlin, Germany
Joined June 2010
On the highway out of Kyiv - the Ukrainians have ripped down the road signs so the Russians get lost and put up another one that says "good luck"
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The front page of today’s Daily Telegraph: Berlin spy chief leaked UK secrets, MI6 fears
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The AfD’s rise in Germany and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France have put Europe’s traditional centre-Right parties under more pressure. Our correspondents explore how the old political order is being forced to confront a new Right directly addressing voters' concerns 👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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NEW: A Russian biker with links to Moscow’s sabotage chief can be revealed as the suspected mastermind of a bomb plot in the heart of Europe. A joint Telegraph and Welt am Sonntag investigation reveals that Oleg Levushkin - a Russian family man with a passion for motorbikes - is believed to have planned a failed attempt to plant explosives at Germany’s Leipzig-Halle airport. German investigators suspect that Mr Levushkin planned the attack before ordering Andrei Karshakou, a Belarusian proxy agent named today for the first time, to carry out his plans in August. Classified intelligence documents from Germany, Lithuania and Poland, as well as interviews with senior Western intelligence officials, detail the pair’s alleged planning of the attack. The evidence points to disturbing links between the Leipzig attack and a wider network of sabotage plots across Europe, all allegedly orchestrated by a hard-line unit in the GRU. W/ @AlexanderDinger @IbraNaber @LennartPfahler telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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Pretty banterish outcome if Schwesig polarised the CDU below 5% and still failed to overtake the AfD.
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The election that could end Friedrich Merz’s premiership. Our 2nd dispatch from Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, where Merz's CDU risks falling below the 5 per cent threshold and having no MPs in the state parliament: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Dispatch from Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, the next state set to give Friedrich Merz's CDU some nightmare results: Germany’s wind turbine boom fuels AfD support - with @JamesCrisp6 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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More than 200,000 views on our AfD documentary now. Absolutely crazy numbers for a story on a regional German election -- but this was no ordinary election: youtu.be/jhZokdghR-M?is=7Hni…
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Analysing the German election result on Ukraine The Latest, filmed with quite possibly the most ludicrous background I have ever managed to find while out on the road: youtu.be/_dCIh3jgFsw?is=y1oc…
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German chancellor Friedrich Merz vows to struggle on despite disastrous election result in Saxony Anhalt. Says determined to stick with the reform programme of his coalition with the SPD.
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