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

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 ...

The resonance of far-right politics among younger voters suggests that Germany’s political landscape is undergoing a ...

President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday's election in Germany show it's working. The ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the United States, step by step.” That won’t be easy, ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...

Previously divided into West Germany and East Germany until reunification in 1990, Germany — officially known as the Federal Republic of Germany — has 16 federal states. Its federal system allows the ...

Paltry service numbers are not only an indication of military unreadiness, but a symptom of widespread European unwillingness ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...

For Vladimir Putin, the Cold War never ended. Since 1999, he has ruled Russia with iron hand beginning with the role of Boris ...

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

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