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

Germany was reunified on 1989 under western conditions. The experiences of its eastern half were not valued, creating fertile ...

The process of industrialization, globalization and urbanization—spreading out from urban centers into the countryside—is one ...

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

With rising poll numbers and renewed purpose, the socialist Left Party is increasingly confident of making it back into the ...

Last year, he left the conservative CDU and founded his own far-right party, the WerteUnion or Values Union, which will be on the ballot in some federal states for the first time as Germany goes ...

He is the man tipped to be Germany's ... former communist east, and Merz, the overtly-assured lawyer from the west, never much saw eye-to-eye. Friedrich Merz eventually left politics in 2009 ...

And yet his explosive bid to tighten migration rules with the support of far-right votes in ... at the same time for the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, slammed the U.S. Agency for International Development after The Daily ...

He is the man tipped to be ... communist east, and Merz, the overtly-assured lawyer from the west, never much saw eye-to-eye. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Friedrich Merz eventually left politics ...