The assault on Enlightenment values is tearing both Europe and America apart.

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.

Dale said that the feeling that Germany’s east had been carved up to line the pockets of West German businessmen remained strong in the country’s economically stagnant eastern regions. “ ...

Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz the hard work begins, writes Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker.

In West Germany, in contrast ... Abortion was legal in the GDR, after reunification activists wanted the reunited country to scrap the West German abortion lawImage: Daniel Biskup/Bundesstiftung ...

For the third time in its modern history, Germany faced the prospect of early elections. With the Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...

Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

Thirty-five years after the reunification of East and West Germany, the country is still divided, and so are its voters. The prosperity gap between the two is one reason so many people ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic ...

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of ...