Germany's far-right AfD party took between 30.5 percent and 33.5 percent of the vote in elections in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to exit polls, marking the first time in Germany’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Klaus-Dieter von der Weiden (L), President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court, welcomes the incumbent Minister of the Interior ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mario Voigt (C), chairman of the Chriistian Democratic Union (CDU) in Thuringia and top candidate for the state elections, speaks ...

Last May, Reinhard Schramm celebrated his 80th birthday. The leader of the small Jewish community of the German federal state of Thuringia was born almost a year before the end of World War II as a ...

A far-right party won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country's east on Sunday, and looked set to finish a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a ...

BERLIN — The political maneuver shaking Germany’s postwar democratic order involves a piece of legislation that is about as mundane as it gets. Center-right legislators in the eastern German state of ...

Thuringia, a region branded as “the cultural heart of Germany” and located in the dead center of the country, has been primarily a domestic tourism destination attracting almost 95 percent German ...

Situated in the heart of Germany, the state of Thuringia is home to more than one thousand years of history. Situated in the heart of Germany, the state of Thuringia is home to more than one thousand ...

The parliament in the eastern German state of Thuringia has chosen a member of the conservative CDU as its new speaker. The far-right AfD, which won the most seats, was blocked by all other parties ...