There is a determination among all of Germany's main parties to keep that block in place - and the German public backs them ...

Why is the far-right AfD popular in areas that once made up the communist country of the German Democratic Republic? The ...

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 ...

New data from Germany's national election highlights a significant political divide as the far-right gains ground in the east ...

Markus Söder, the boss of Bavaria's centre-right Christian Social Union (CSU), claimed a share of the credit for the ...

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