An economist by training, Koehler was the first German head of state who was not a career politician. Before becoming president he was the head of the IMF in Washington from 2000 to 2004 and also held ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it ...

The central question remains whether once again the majority will be secured with AfD votes, as was the case the day before ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on ...

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticized her opposition centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticized her centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for passing a motion ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

The former chancellor has slammed her conservative CDU party for passing a migration motion with help of the far-right AfD.

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani is set to attend the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in mid-February, the ...

The British accent has been voted as the sexiest foreign accent when speaking English, with just under 50 percent of all respondents picking it as their top choice. (They must’ve just been ...

including then-chancellor Angela Merkel. Currently, undersea fiber optic cables transport 98 percent of global digital data. Undersea cables ferry data of all kinds between the continents, ...