But many are not surprised. Right-wing sentiment and extremism have tended to find more fertile ground in Germany's former east - fuelled, some argue, by the social and economic inequality that ...

Saturday's Pride Parade in the east German town of Bautzen, overshadowed by far-right protests, ended without major incidents ...

The “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West” (Pegida) is winning over more and more supporters, causing Germany ... The protests paint a twisted picture of sentiment ...

The protest last month ... used by pro-democracy protesters opposed to the communist regime of the old East Germany. The crowd in Berlin shouted Freiheit - freedom - as loudspeakers blasted ...