Germany's Constitutional Court upheld the 'solidarity surcharge,' a tax introduced post-reunification to bridge economic gaps ...

A judge ruled that Germany's solidarity tax is still necessary to cope with the costs of reunification. Just 10% of the ...

Germany's Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld an additional tax shouldered by certain taxpayers and many companies, first introduced in the 1990s to smooth out the differences between East and ...

Thirty years after German reunification put an end to the 1949 division of Germany into East and West, the questions remain: How did people in both socialist East Germany and capitalist West Germany ...

The Wall was a symbol of the Cold War that divided the world into East and West. In 1989, a peaceful revolution brought the fall of the Wall, the end of the GDR and paved the way for the reunification ...

In March 1990, 400 East German lawmakers became the first ... but also took account of the wish of most GDR citizens for reunification with West Germany to happen as quickly as possible.

Germany’s Constitutional Court has dismissed an appeal by six Free Democratic Party (FDP) politicians seeking to eliminate ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

Back then, the country used deutsche marks rather than euros, and the reunification of West Germany and communist East Germany was getting under way following the fall of the Berlin Wall the ...

TASS/. Donbass and Novorossia’s reunification with Russia is no more "criminal" than the merger between East and West Germany, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said.

Germany's Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld an additional tax shouldered by certain taxpayers and many companies first introduced in the 1990s to smooth out the differences between East and ...