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 ...

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 ...

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

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the ...

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

Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

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

The breaking of a taboo among mainstream German parties on cooperation with the far right looks set to complicate efforts to ...