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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Germany's unemployment rate rose at the start of the year, despite a smaller than expected increase in the number of people ...

Germany's mainstream parties were locked in talks on Friday in an attempt to avert the possibility of a law passing thanks to ...

"Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents," Musk said, apparently ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk addressed a rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Saturday, urging ...