And the vast majority of farms use contractors - who often bring specialist knowledge, training, or kit. We visit JSE Systems Ltd near Grantham in Lincolnshire, which specialises in supplying, ...

Europe’s economic powerhouse is faltering due to competition from China in manufacturing, an ageing population and influx of ...

"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of ...

They’re the strongest party in east Germany.” When the Wall came down, reunification followed soon after. Under the leadership of West Germany’s Christian Democrat chancellor Helmut Kohl ...

Some of that support is fuelled by resentment that 35 years after Germany reunified, wages in the east are still lower than the west. People are increasingly disconnected from centrist politicians ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

After the German reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economy of East Germany was characterized by lower incomes, higher unemployment and weaker growth compared to the West.

Every time there is an election in Germany, starkly coloured polling maps make the rounds, tracing the old dividing line between East and West Germany during the Cold War with astonishing precision.

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the early euphoria of reunification, enduring economic inequalities between East and West have hollowed out support for Germany’s major parties ...