Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the strongest force in Brandenburg, the neighbouring state to Berlin, for the first time, according to a new poll. But the Greens are also on the up.
The former communist east Germany has made major progress but is still lagging behind the west nearly three decades after reunification, according to a new study.
The Local spent two days in the eastern town of Cottbus, meeting international students and locals to get a sense for a city made famous by its decision in January to stop taking in refugees.
With higher unemployment rates than
western Germany and support for the anti-immigration AfD party reaching 20
percent, the country's former communist east has often been associated with economic decline and xenophobia.
A lack of women in the East, more wealth in the West, and lingering bitterness - a report published on Wednesday exposed the stark differences that still exist between East and West Germany 25 years after reunification.
Peeling paint and boarded-up windows mark the tiny main street in the eastern German village of Briesen where a new private high school improbably stands.
Emigration from the former Communist states of East Germany has finally ended, 23 years after reunification. The slowly improving economy is behind the fall in people moving to the west, a report released on Wednesday found.
Many of the millions of east Germans who flocked to the west of the country to take jobs when the country was reunified are now returning home, a study published on Thursday showed.
A team of German and British social scientists have published a new study into trust in more than 50 countries. Germany as a whole ranked in the top ten, although those in the western part are more trusting than easterners.
Subsidies for former communist east Germany will continue past their 2009 expiration date, the German government announced on Wednesday amid disagreements about how large the payments should be.
