On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after the election for the East German parliament, the People's Chamber. The conservative CDU laid claim to the ...

"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of ...

which Deutsche Bank said would be close to the amount invested in the former East Germany since reunification in 1990, calling it "a fiscal regime shift of historic proportions". Because the new ...

won surprisingly high results in last year’s European election and in three East German states, starkly reducing voters’ support for its former parent party, the LINKE, which soon sank to a ...

Anke Schleritt said there is a feeling that politics is very remote Quedlinburg, not far from the Harz mountains in Saxony-Anhalt, is typical of the de-industrialised former east Germany.

Interestingly, the AfD received most of its votes from Germany's eastern states. Almost all of the former East Germany has now turned AfD blue. So, why has East Germany voted for the AfD?

BERLIN — At least two people were injured when shots were fired near a courthouse in western Germany on Wednesday ... the death nearly a year ago of a former boxer, Besar Nimani, who was ...

The AfD won 36.2% of the vote in eastern Germany, and 18% in the west (see map). While it has got votes in almost every ... The AfD’s message has resonated especially in the former East Germany, whose ...

Support for AfD was particularly pronounced in the former East Germany, which remains blighted by infrastructure issues increasingly visible across Germany; schools are deteriorating, and there ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered the confiscation of Palestinian Authority funds designated for released prisoners. The funds are payments made to Palestinian prisoners serving prison ...

Celebrating its best-ever result, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made extraordinary gains in the last few years. It has doubled its vote share since 2021 with more than 10 million ...