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News from Saxony

Paulina Ließner is in her second year of training as a painter and varnisher at a company in Dresden / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

"Everyone needs craftsmen"

Paulina Ließner prefers a paintbrush to a laptop. Across Saxony, interest in apprenticeships in the skilled trades is on the rise - despite digitalization and AI. Or is that precisely why?

A state association of the new AfD youth organization Generation Deutschland is to be founded in Saxony next year. (Symbolic image) / Photo: Georg Wendt/dpa

Saxony to have new AfD youth in 2026

At federal level, a replacement has already been created for the disbanded Junge Alternative, which has been classified as right-wing extremist. A new association is also set to be formed in Saxony soon.

The Groschen Markt retail chain has 47 stores in Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. (Symbolic image) / Photo: Oliver Berg/dpa

East German bargain chain files for insolvency

With household goods, Christmas decorations, garden accessories and more at low prices, Groschen Markt is mainly found in rural areas in eastern Germany. But competition is giving the model a hard time.