Hoyer interweaves the experiences of ordinary East German citizens to illustrate what daily life was like under communist ...

Germany. This place was just out of this world. It looked like the people left in a hurry and everything was left behind!

expects stagnation for East Germany in 2025 and growth of 1.1% in 2026. According to the IWH forecast, the unemployment rate is expected to be 7.8% in both 2025 and 2026, after 7.5% in 2024.

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz agreed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

Friedrich Merz, the incoming chancellor, persuaded lawmakers to let him spend more. Infrastructure will be the first order of ...

Gysi worked as a lawyer in the former East Germany before helping to reform the old communist party after the Berlin Wall fell. He was first elected to the Bundestag after reunification in 1990.

Gysi, a criminal defence lawyer in East Germany who later ... The new parliament takes shape after two consecutive years of economic contraction and nerves about Germany's and Europe's response ...

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has said Russia has committed a 'serious war crime' after at least 34 people ... others - including children. Germany's incoming chancellor told ...

The deal on Wednesday caps weeks of haggling between Chancellor-in-waiting Merz and the SPD after he topped elections ... with the far-right Alternative for Germany surging into second place.

Germany's conservatives under Friedrich Merz have reached a deal with the Social Democrats to govern Europe's biggest economy, five months after the ... in recession before it was buffeted by ...

The agreement establishing a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) underscores ...