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 ...

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

"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 ...

We are joined this week by Bruno Waterfield, one of the longest-serving newspaper correspondents in Brussels working for The Times, Sophie Pornschlegel, French-German political scientist with the ...

The breakup of the Bremer Vulkan Group has led to the two main, former East German yards — MTW Wismar and Volkswerft Stalsund — to come under the wing of the newlyformed Ostee ...

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.

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 ...