and as if the German chancellor was still Helmut Kohl, who left office in 1998. Biden was forced to abandon his campaign for a second term in July by mutinous fellow Democrats worried about his ...

Germany is to receive President Joe Biden with the highest honours next week as he makes the first state visit by a US leader ...

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.

In Germany, early elections become necessary if a government loses its parliamentary majority. It has been used as a last ...

The three parties in Germany's ruling coalition are facing increasing pressure to assert themselves following a series of ...

British-Irish singer born in 1948, Christopher John Davison was nevertheless born in... Argentina as his father, a diplomat, ...

If a government loses its parliamentary majority, early elections become necessary in Germany. That has historically been a last resort to restore political stability and regain voters' trust.

The speakers at the rally limited themselves to hollow pacifist phrases and fuelled the illusion that the federal government ...

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 ...

There was a time, in the 1980s, when true political leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl, and José Maria Aznar were the standard-bearers of this school of thought. This ...

In 1984, the withdrawal of the FDP led a month later to a constructive vote of no confidence in then-SPD chancellor Helmut Schmidt and election of the conservative Helmut Kohl as his successor.

On Sept. 27, 2014, Mount Ontake, Japan's second highest volcano, erupted in a cloud of ash, killing 63 people, many of them ...