Saxony was the site of far-right riots and demonstrations sparked by the stabbing to death of a Cuban-German man in the city of Chemnitz in August, initially blamed on two migrants from Iraq and ...

Sadly, Saxony has become synonymous with narrow-mindedness and fear of foreigners. Of its four million inhabitants, only 171,000 are non-Germans and nearly all of them live in big cities such as ...

The premier of the eastern German state of Saxony announced his resignation on Wednesday after an embarrassing election defeat against the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD. Stanislaw ...

Police in the German state of Saxony are investigating after a video showed several people appear to give the Nazi "Heil Hitler" salute at an Oktoberfest event.

Saxony has the lowest vaccination rate in Germany, with 61.9% having had a first dose and the second highest incidence rate of infection. Only neighbouring Thuringia has a higher rate of cases.

Saxony's revolutionary history. Saxony labels itself as a "free state." This goes back to 1918 when Saxony's monarchy was abolished to express that the state was no longer subordinate to a king.

Saxony has the lowest vaccination rate in Germany, with 61.9% having had a first dose and the second highest incidence rate of infection. Only neighbouring Thuringia has a higher rate of cases.