In some more rural areas, it has already burst its banks. Authorities in Brandenburg in eastern Germany continue to prepare flood defenses and plans to evacuate affected areas if necessary ...

Polls opened on Sunday in the German state of Brandenburg, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to finish first, aiming to build on recent successes in other eastern ...

Sunday’s election, in the state of Brandenburg, is the third and final election in a state that was once part of East Germany before the country votes for a new chancellor and federal government ...

Governor of Brandenburg and Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, top candidate for the state election Dietmar Woidke arrives at the party's election event after first exit polls announced in ...

“We have no other choice,” she said. Decision day in Brandenburg comes three weeks after elections in two other eastern states that shattered Germany’s late-summer calm. The AfD came first ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s Social Democrats have won a narrow victory in elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg, an ...

The Social Democrats have managed to edge ahead of the AfD in the Brandenburg vote. We look at the big winners and losers of the election and what happens next. It's been a busy month for politics ...

IT WAS NOT just any German regional election. The vote on September 22nd in Brandenburg, one of Germany’s 16 Länder, was the last big statewide election before the federal one next autumn.

A week before state elections in Brandenburg, the state which surrounds the capital Berlin, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) remains the favourite. Just weeks ago the AfD won a third of ...

A new Jewish synagogue and community center in Potsdam, Germany dedicated on July 5, 2024Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images Germany’s president helped inaugurate a new, multi ...

Germany’s minister for agriculture, Cem Ozdemir, has convened with key stakeholders from the agriculture and food sectors to address the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Brandenburg.

The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it ... level on the four-stage scale used in Germany was in effect for a stretch of the ...