For most of his political career, Helmut Kohl was easy to underestimate. Yet political enemies did so at their peril. Ridiculed as a big, fat provincial with a suspiciously lightweight doctoral thesis ...

A court in Cologne has forbidden the publication of further passages from a book about former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The legal dispute between Kohl's second ...

"Helmut Kohl is why we have all this," says Sigmund as he repairs his boat engine on the River Spree. He gestures at the tourist barges, the offices, the construction sites along the river bank. "He ...

Angela Merkel, western Europe’s longest serving and most influential leader, was elected to a third term in office last year and her popularity among German voters remains startlingly high. But not ...

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl’s vitriol spares few of his peers in a disputed biography that includes a put-down of Angela Merkel’s table manners. Kohl, 84, has an axe to grind with Merkel, who ...

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