President Biden is taking heat online after he confused former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and deceased leader Helmut ...

A court in Cologne has forbidden the publication of further passages from a book about former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The legal dispute between Kohl's second wife and his former memoir ...

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

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.

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and beyond.

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.