He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

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

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the German state in ...

The German parliament rejected an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy on Friday, two days after the ...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly rejected an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration ...

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

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

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday at his Chequers ...

Germany's parliament faced the possibility of passing a law due to far-right support for the first time in post-war history, ...