On Thursday the 81-year-old mistakenly referred to Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah El-Sissi as the president of Mexico, ...

World leaders have paid tribute to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, who oversaw German reunification. Mr Kohl, who died last month, was a major driving force behind closer European integration.

Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in power for a mere 10 days more than Mutti Merkel (“Mother Merkel”), as the country’s first female ...

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

It all started after the 2004 tsunami, when former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was holidaying in Sri Lanka at a beach villa in the South, when a wall of water came crashing in. Mr. Kohl was plucked ...

When the Wall still stood: showing US Vice-President George HW Bush the divided city of Berlin in 1983 Copyright 2025 BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not ...

When Helmut Kohl came to power in 1982, there was no shortage of mockers who saw him as the "transitional chancellor". Declared politically dead several times, Kohl nevertheless became the longest ...

In a new book, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner urges the U.S. and Europe to join together in a “Freedom Trade Alliance” against China, Russia and other autocracies.

François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl at Verdun in 1984. Angela Merkel and François Hollande are to make a joint address in the European Parliament, underlining the gravity of crises facing the ...