Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

The successor to East Germany's Communist Party has made a late surge two weeks before a national election after its leader ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

43, JULY - DECEMBER 2020 The turnaround in internal migration bet... BACKGROUND After losing a population of more than 1.2 million through migration to the West, in 2017 East Germany recorded net ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

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 ...