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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TODAY marks the 25th anniversary of German reunification. Was it the euphoric success story trumpeted by the German Establishment and reiterated by the British media? Germany today appears to be a ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

Germany's Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld the solidarity tax that was introduced after the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Six members of the pro-free market Free ...

Last year, the surcharge, which amounts to 5.5% of income and corporation tax, contributed around 12.6 billion euros ($13.6 billion) to German government coffers. The reunification of Germany in 1990 ...

Germany's Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld the solidarity tax that was introduced after the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Six members of the pro-free market Free Democratic ...