Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

Germany’s economy has long performed poorly ... The divide between Germany’s east and west also indicates that more than 35 ...

In former East Germany, parties of the extreme right or left got 60 per cent of the vote, while in West Germany they got 30 per cent. The incoming government will have to deal with these economic ...

German dependence on China and its foolhardy energy policies have brought low what was once an economic colossus. With ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

Germany's lower house of parliament is set to vote on Tuesday on a massive surge in borrowing that could boost Europe's largest economy and stimulate growth across the region.

Meanwhile, despite the economic downturn, total employment in Germany rose to 46.1 million last year, the highest figure since the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. On the other hand ...

Her own mother was a shift worker — it was normal for women in former East Germany to work. They were indispensable to its socialist "economy of scarcity." In West Germany, in contrast ...

Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected the Cold War ideologies of Russia and the US. West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy ...