All findings are based on data from the German government ... Per-capita gross domestic product was €32,108 in the former East German states in 2018, compared with €42,971 in the former West German ...

All over the world, authoritarian regimes still use some of the tactics favored by the East German dictatorship—informers are still widely used, for instance. But states are now using modern ...

All of this impacted on the state of democracy in both East-Germany and West-Germany. Today, local state elections in the two East-German states – Saxony and Thuringia held in 2024 – were a ...

Thirty-five years after reunification, there is no clear path back to convergence for the former East German states. On the contrary ... because we all stand to gain from it.

Voters in two states in eastern Germany have given the ... even though it's under domestic surveillance. It's seen by the German state as a threat to the Constitution. This is a fact that a ...