Small and medium-sized firms, many of them global market leaders, are responsible for more than half the area’s jobs ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the populist AfD has risen to popularity amid the region's ...

East Germany, the most electorally unstable region of Germany, according to German political analysts, may have a decisive ...

BERLIN (AP) — An eastern German region said Friday it is lifting a ban on the transport of animals that was imposed last weekend after foot-and-mouth disease was detected in a buffalo herd.