Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of ...

East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to have come to power in free and fair elections.On March 18, 1990, ...

Germany's reunification.On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union emerged as the strongest party after the election ...

Kohl worked for German reunification, campaigning in East Germany for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and getting NATO and the Soviet Union’s approval. 1947 – Begins working in the ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. The late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl did much to develop relations between Germany and Russia, Naina Yeltsina, the widow of first Russian President Boris Yeltsin ...

After all, the party has produced some of Germany’s most renowned chancellors: Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl, and Angela Merkel. Kohl, who served as chancellor from 1990 to 1998, prided himself ...

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 ...

October 1, 1982-October 2, 1990 – Chancellor of West Germany. 1988 – Along with then French President Francois Mitterrand, Kohl receives the Charlemagne Award for efforts towards European ...