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 ...

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 ...

Germany's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by six politicians from the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) to abolish an additional tax originally introduced to finance the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new permanent exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn brings 80 years of German history to life, including the post ...

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 ...