We are at an existential milestone for our freedom and security,” declared German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who ...

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

The attack on sick pay on the pretext of “work-shyness” is cynical and dishonest. The same corporations and politicians ...

A trained economist and member of the Christian Democrats, he rose to the position of deputy finance minister under former chancellor Helmut Kohl, playing a key role in bringing the West German ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

Before becoming president, he was a key economic official in the 1980s and '90s when chancellor Helmut Kohl was in power. He played a central role in Germany's monetary unification in 1990 -- when ...

Starting in the early 1980s, he worked for more than a decade in the Finance Ministry under Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who once called him "a treasure" and relied on him in economic diplomacy.

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 ...