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The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data.
The geographical division through the middle of Germany may have vanished ... the geographical division parting East and West until 1990 may have vanished from world maps — but not so much ...
Not only was the map of Europe returned to normal ... he rose to become the Chancellor who initiated West Germany's reconciliation with the East. Nothing catches Cold War tensions more vividly ...
Twenty-five years after reunification, the once considerable differences between life expectancy in eastern and western Germany ... East German women have more or less caught up with those in the ...
Under the leadership of West Germany’s Christian Democrat ... “If you look up the electoral maps of the general election, it’s as if the old East Germany still exists,” he said.
Reporting from Dresden, Germany — Ingolf Koecher and his wife, Bettina, have marched in 120 anti-Islam rallies in the former East German city ... Islamisation of the West) marches in Dresden ...
Economic growth in the East still lags that of the West, and many easterners are expressing their discontent by supporting the anti-immigrant, far-right Alternative for Germany party. The German ...
SCHWERIN, Germany—A sharp difference in the number of coronavirus cases between western Germany and the former communist East has emerged as a new divide, three decades after reunification.