As troop numbers stagnate and Russia’s threat looms, Berlin is betting on a voluntary service model to rebuild the military — ...

Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

Helmut Kohl, Germany’s long-serving unity chancellor and a towering figure in European unification, has died aged 87 after a long illness. Dr Kohl was elected West German chancellor in 1982 and ...

In West Germany, CDU Chancellor Helmut Kohl had also made this a main focus of his campaign. The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), and their leader Willy Brandt, had misinterpreted the mood and ...

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 ...

ST PETERSBURG, June 17. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his acquaintance with Germany’s ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died on Friday, changed his views on relations between ...

Former CDU Chancellor Helmut Kohl did it in 1982 and his SPD successor Gerhard Schroeder in 2005. Kohl won, while Schroeder lost. With campaigning just getting underway, the conservative CDU/CSU ...

HELMUT KOHL'S GRANDSON - Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification, had been chancellor for 14 years when his grandson Johannes Volkmann was born in 1996. Volkmann was originally named ...

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 ...

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