A look back: East Germany's first freely elected parliament
Germany's reunification.On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union emerged as the strongest party after the election ...
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East German must hold top role in incoming government, say The Left
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The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...
Germany’s Defense Pivot Needs More Than Just Money
The country emerged from World War II chastened and wary of military culture. This legacy lives on. Katja Hoyer is a ...
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Germany Election Maps: How Conservatives Regained Power
Thirty-five years after the reunification of East and West Germany, the country is still divided, and so are its voters. The prosperity gap between the two is one reason so many people ...
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German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall
West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy, while East Germany was a communist country with a very poor economy. The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952 ...
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How Germany’s enduring East-West divide is pushing voters to the fringes
Böick said that the memories of those first years still weighed heavily across the country’s east. “In the east of Germany, after having experienced the downfall of the GDR and all the ...