Germany reintroduced temporary controls on its western and northern borders on Monday as part of efforts to combat irregular ...

State of the Union focuses on the latest round of immigration politics in Germany and voting patterns in the US and elsewhere ...

First, they got left behind when they merged with west Germany in 1990 after Soviet Union’s collapse—enduring unemployment, ...

If the centrists want to stabilize German politics, they have to ensure the political spectrum is balanced,” Hoyer writes.

Germany’s far right party just won its first state election in the east, less than eight decades after the end of Nazi ...

When Quentin Tarantino chose the small eastern German town of Sebnitz for a scene in his Inglourious Basterds, he was likely ...

In the wake of far right gains in recent German state-level elections, German historian and journalist Katja Hoyer joins ...

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The third and final eastern German state of Brandenburg heads to the polls in just a couple of days. With the government ...

Half of East Germans say recent negative developments in their country remind them of the post-war era of socialism ...

“If the old parties had done their jobs properly then the AfD would not exist,” Ingolf complains, echoing a common sense that the rest of Germany looks down on so-called “Ossis” in the east.