Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at the ceremony in the Mecklenburg State Theater. As part of the Bundesrat presidency, Schwerin is hosting the central celebrations for German Unity Day under ...

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of German reunification, former World Bank President Robert Zoellick and former German Federal Finance Minister Theo Waigel discussed the continued ...

Lawmakers in Berlin have paid tribute to the courage of the residents of the former East Germany, as the reunified country prepared to mark 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a debate on ...

For three decades, the anniversaries of German reunification have been used to drum up support for military rearmament and to spread German great power fantasies. For every class-conscious worker, the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron are all set to celebrate German reunification day, officials in the German capital of Berlin confirmed on Friday. The event, ...

Even after 27 years of reunification, East Germans are still more likely to be pro-state support than their Western counterparts, a new study published in German Economic Review finds. Of the sample ...

A judge ruled that Germany's solidarity tax is still necessary to cope with the costs of reunification. Just 10% of the highest income earners are still subject to the tax, in addition to businesses ...

Twenty years ago East and West Germany were reunified. Has Germany grown together since then? Over 300 high school students have tried to answer this question for the competition "20 years of German ...

Thirty-one Octobers ago, Germany suddenly and irreversibly reunited after more than 40 years of division. It was sudden, because the Berlin Wall had fallen less than a year earlier and reunification ...

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Giant puppets up to 15 meters (50 feet) tall will roam the streets of Berlin at the start of October to enact a fairytale based on German reunification. French street theater ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a ceremony on the occasion of the Day of German Unity at Haendel Hall in Halle/Saale, Germany, 3 October 2021. [Pool/EPA/EFE] Angela Merkel urged Germans ...

Recent trends in German life expectancy show a considerable increase. Most of this increase has resulted from decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed ...