Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the early euphoria of reunification, enduring economic inequalities between East and West have hollowed out support for Germany’s major ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD ...

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.

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Decades after the unification of Germany, the rise of extremist parties has divided the country once again, leaving the ...

“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

The German economy shrank by 0.2% in the final quarter of 2024 compared with the previous quarter, the statistics office ...

Germany's election map highlights stark east-west divide across the country - New data from Germany's national election ...