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

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s home state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, is the poorest region in Germany with a 24% poverty rate; one of the richest is the picture-postcard pretty Black Forest region ...

Germany’s four poorest regions -- Bremen, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein and the city-state of Berlin -- have to present plans to overhaul public finances to adhere to a balanced-budget rule from ...

The latest Eurostat figures on living conditions say that there are 94.6 million people in the EU who are at risk of poverty or social exclusion — or 21.4% of its population. The numbers show ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the populist AfD has risen to popularity amid the region's economic decline. In one city— Gelsenkirchen— individuals are ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the right-wing AfD party has risen to popularity amid the region's economic decline. In one city — Gelsenkirchen — individuals ...