To stop far-right populism, the federal government is pushing regional democracy-promotion programs.

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The picnic was organised as a gesture of European unity, and the idea was to let Austrian and Hungarian delegations cross the border for a few hours - but it turned into an East German stampede ...

They told only the few East German punks they knew about the gig ... Honecker had been forced to stand down several weeks earlier, and Politburo had resigned en masse. During the night of ...

The discovery, made by architect Mark Aretz, revealed a small one-bedroom apartment evidently abandoned quickly by its occupants as the Communist East German state disintegrated in 1989 ...

QUESTION: Was the East German sports doping programme mandated by the government? The doping programme of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) was a ­systematic, state-run effort ...

In The Closed World of East German Economists, Till Düppe tells the story of a generation of economists whose entire careers coincided with the forty-one-year existence of the German Democratic ...

German investor morale darkened more than expected in September, the ZEW economic research institute said on Tuesday, as the ...

Today, the Berlin Wall still stands as a monument in some parts of the city. 10,316 days after its fall, the wall serves as an ever-present reminder of Berlin's turbulent past, but also its ...

Albania is a rugged country slightly bigger than Wales, bordered on the north by Montenegro and Kosovo (in Yugoslavia), on the east by Macedonia ... in the Tiranë politburo, or -- as seems ...