Andrea Nahles, Chairwoman of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), speaks about the situation on the German labor market. Eastern Germany faces more serious and immediate workforce shortages, as an ...

The premiers of the five states in eastern Germany are meeting in Berlin on Thursday to discuss the future of the region, which still lags economically behind the former West Germany. February's ...

“We can do it,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in 2015 of her country’s ability to absorb the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants streaming into Europe from the Middle East. Oh no we can’t ...

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its popularity.

After World War II, the Soviet Union transformed their occupied zone in Germany into the German Democratic Republic. One of the many communist states in the Eastern Bloc, East Germany developed a ...

Fundamentally, Europe’s policymakers must acknowledge that the Middle East constitutes the continent’s primary security ...

CHEMNITZ, Germany — Chemnitz’s designation as the European Capital of Culture 2025 has put it on the map. However, the city has also been in the news as the epicenter of the far-right movement in ...

EISENACH, Germany (Reuters) - Statistics show that Germany's east has done fairly well in catching up with the wealthier west over the past decade but that success has done little to dispel economic ...

Wildfires in eastern Germany have severely injured two firefighters and forced the evacuation of more than 100 residents BERLIN -- Wildfires eastern Germany have severely injured two firefighters and ...

In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of independent fashion designers, photographers, models and stylists who refused to play along with the socialist regime’s excessive egalitarianism. They ...