In 2018, the average unemployment rate was 6.9% in the six states of the former East Germany, compared with 4.8% in the 10 states of the former West Germany. (In all economic statistics in this ...

Germany's Ifo Institute for Economic Research is projecting 0.7% economic growth in East Germany this year, more than is expected for the country overall.

Instead, Germany’s economy is the largest and among the healthiest in Europe, producing more than 25 percent of the euro area’s GDP. German GDP will expand 1.8 percent this year and 2 percent ...

After the Berlin Wall came down, 18 million people in East Germany were — for the first time in more than 40 years — able to travel as widely as they could afford; express political opinions ...

With Germany now an established, reunified democracy, it is taking stock of what is working and what still needs work, especially as the economy continues to lag in the former East. By Melissa ...

Since the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990, the old West Germany has transferred a massive $2 trillion (€1.7 trillion) in economic aid in an attempt to help former East Germany ...

West Germany not only subsidized the East German economy. It also offered a convenient dumping ground for anyone who might threaten the regime politically.

Germany's Ifo Institute for Economic Research is projecting 0.7% economic growth in East Germany this year, more than is expected for the country overall.

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its ...

Germany's Ifo Institute for Economic Research is projecting 0.7% economic growth in East Germany this year, more than is expected for the country overall.

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its ...