While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable decreases in East Germany did not become evident until the late 1980s. Yet, the East German mortality decline ...

Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

With only a few weeks to go before Germany's parliamentary elections, the political establishment is once again arguing over which institutions should be shared between Berlin and Bonn.

After the German reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economy of East Germany was characterized by lower incomes, higher unemployment and weaker growth compared to the West.