When Lynnda and I went to Japan a few years ago, I knew where Tokyo and Mount Fuji were. I didn’t know where the Japanese ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the right-wing AfD party has risen to popularity amid the region's economic decline. In one city — Gelsenkirchen — individuals are ...

When Lynnda and I went to Japan a few years ago, I knew where Tokyo and Mount Fuji were. I didn’t know where the Japanese major manufacturing centers were. Before we went to Germany last year, I knew ...

The AfD leader maintains a discourse that contradicts her personal life but is allowing her to gain ground among a German ...

Charlotte Merz, the wife of the front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, said on Friday she hardly sees her husband ...

Public sector union Verdi has called on airport staff in Düsseldorf and Cologne to go on a day-long "warning strike." ...

Small and medium-sized firms, many of them global market leaders, are responsible for more than half the area’s jobs ...

Public transport strikes are taking place in six German states on Friday, including North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse. Here’s where passengers will be affected, and how to get around during the ...

Constant incitement against refugees and migrants, far-right conspiracy theories about “left-wing elites” or the denial of pandemics—in Germany, all of this has been rendered socially acceptable in ...

What is "passivhaus" and how can we optimise energy systems to protect the planet? In this episode of Smart Regions, we visit ...

Security threats in Europe as well as in the Indo-Pacific are changing our world in fundamental ways. So is the climate crisis.