Gunter Wetzel and Peter Strelzyk decided they could no longer live in the communist state of East Germany. So, the two men proceeded to put together an epic project, creating a hot air balloon that ...

NATO is planning to build a pipeline system from Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic to ensure a rapid supply of jet ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election on Feb. 23. The economy is a key factor contributing to the party's ...

When German voters go to the polls Sunday, the country’s moribund economy — and promises to fix it — will be front of mind.

Constituencies in Germany’s East have, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, been among the most volatile in the country, often changing hands from party to party. This changeability makes them ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Nobody can be expected to fix Germany’s problems overnight, but with the ...

It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.