On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after the election for the East German parliament, the People's Chamber. The conservative CDU laid claim to the ...

On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after elections to the East German parliament, the People's Chamber. The CDU laid claim to the offices of prime ...

East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to have come to power in free and fair elections.On March 18, 1990, ...

Aristocrat Constance Marten has viewed haunting CCTV images of her tragic baby as she returned to her retrial. Marten, 37, ...

Burgundy remains the eternal home of Pinot and its famed original patchwork of climats (single vineyards and blocks) on the Cote d’Or. It’s the subtle facets of its terroir that make Burgundy ...

While it has got votes in almost every constituency in this election, the party has traditionally enjoyed greater popularity in the east of the country — in areas that made up the communist German ...

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 ...

“The German government under Kohl implemented a plan, essentially, that involved a pretty rapid de-industrialisation of the East,” he said. “The Eastern enterprises were sold off in a fire ...

Almost all of the old East Germany has turned AfD blue. The party has always been more popular in German areas that were once under Soviet rule, but this year has tightened its grip. Image ...

Germany’s far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party (AfD) party saw particular support in the former East Germany ... largest in the legislature. The German parliament has slashed its seats ...

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They finished second overall in the EU vote, and regionally, in their heartland areas of East Germany, the state of Thuringia became the first German region to elect a far-right party since the ...