Helmut Schlesinger, the former president of the Bundesbank who has died at the age of 100, was regarded as the German central ...

FRANKFURT, Germany -- German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday ordered parliament dissolved and set new elections ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday paid tribute to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as a leading statesman ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has dissolved parliament and set elections for February 23, seven months earlier ...

He won that vote. Even so, Schimdt was ousted a short time later. That opened the door for CDU politician Helmut Kohl, who ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor shares his party’s pro-EU and Atlanticist instincts, but also the country’s wider reluctance ...

In a surprising moment during his annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked which deceased world ...

Voter turnout was the highest ever for a Bundestag election, at 91.1%. Helmut Kohl, of the CDU, was responsible for the second early Bundestag election, in 1983. Kohl assumed power following a ...

Earlier in the week he spoke about discussing the 2021 Capitol riot with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. However, Kohl resigned as chancellor in 1998 and died in 2017. And during a recent ...

CGES was founded in 1997 by a generous gift from the German government and Brandeis University, and dedicated in May 1998 by Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The Center hosts a variety of events throughout the ...

While Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl both went on to win the subsequent elections and remain chancellors, Gerhard Schröder lost to Angela Merkel in 2005. The only twist in the otherwise predictable ...