Germany celebrates on Saturday the 25th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany into one country after 45 years of being separated. Reunification happened less than a year after ...

Thirty years on, the old East-West divide remains at play ... example of the resounding success of German reunification. Per capita GDP in eastern Germany has reached 79.1%, a gain of 42 ...

Tomorrow marks the 25 th anniversary of German reunification. And since the radical reunion of East and West at the end of the Cold War, Germany has become Europe’s undisputed leader.

BERLIN – Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 28th anniversary of the reunification of east and west, a process that Chancellor Angela Merkel said still isn't complete. The country's leaders ...

The area occupied by former East Germany has a much smaller population than the former West (about 16 million ... backgrounds overwhelmingly believe the reunification was a positive development.

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided ...

After reunification, the East lost a generation of young people ... By contrast, women in the former West Germany have struggled to break from traditional gender roles, with men working and ...

Nearly two decades after the unification of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Germans in the east and the west continue to express positive opinions about ...

The idea that reunification would yield long-term convergence was probably wildly optimistic. It is true that East Germany inherited well-functioning institutions from West Germany. It also went ...

Unity Day on Monday will mark 32 years since East and West Germany were ... 11 months for German reunification to formally take place. On October 3, 1990, Eastern Germany, or the German Democratic ...