Newspapers on Monday morning carried a striking – and stark – political map of Germany in 2024. The Berlin coalition colours – red, green and yellow – are almost nowhere to be seen.

The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data. News agency Reuters has created a map using result figures that show a ...

How different it was when I was based in the old West Germany in the mid-1980s as the Financial Times' correspondent in Bonn (a capital described by an American colleague as "the size of Chicago's ...

In 1953, swimming against the historical tide, the 16-year-old Biermann moved, alone, from West Germany to the East, just as thousands were fleeing in the other direction in search of a better life.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from the eastern German city of Schwerin that since East Germany adopted the West German currency ten years ago, the road to economic reform in the East has been rocky.

Having been in Berlin on that euphoric occasion in November 1989 when the Wall came down, I went on to extensively tour the soon-to-be-abolished East Germany during the following Easter holiday.