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Voters in two former East German states go to the polls Sunday in elections expected to deal a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government and deliver big gains for the far-right AfD. The polls in Thuringia and Saxony come just over a week after three people were killed in a…

Sahra Wagenknecht attacked while about to speak on stage in run-up to Thuringia and Saxony state elections

Well-known MP Sahra Wagenknecht has announced plans for a new party that could shift the fragile balance of German politics, says Berlin-based writer Peter Kuras

Sahra Wagenknecht joined by nine other MPs in migration-sceptical party which will court unhappy voters on left and right

Dietmar Bartsch’s departure comes days after his co-chair of the leftwing party, Amira Mohamed Ali, resigned

Monarch says he wants to ‘renew special bond of friendship’ between countries, in speech delivered in English and German

Renegade former leader of Die Linke among organisers of rally opposing western weapons exports to Ukraine

Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany's hard-left Die Linke party said on Saturday.

Leftwing party’s future in balance after series of resignations, as former co-leader calls coalition ‘stupidest government in Europe’