It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.

The far-right party is walking in the steps of the MAGA movement by courting support in depressed, diverse industrial towns ...

Tempted as well by cheap river transportation and by West Germany’s biggest floating ... The rural aspects of the region, so long crushed by fumes and neglect, can once again exert their charm.

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday aged 81 after a ...

In the west, support for the BSW is significantly lower. This was already evident in the European elections in June, when the BSW received 6.2% of the German vote. The regional differences were ...