Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...

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

Former German President Horst Koehler, who served as the IMF Managing Director from 2000 to 2004, and as president from 2004 ...

Horst Kohler, a former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who became a popular German president, has died aged 81.

Friedrich Merz, the conservative politician leading the race to be Germany's next chancellor, broke a taboo by getting a ...

Once little-known among his fellow Germans, Mr Kohler became a popular head of state, often positioning himself as an ...

It was perhaps the most dramatic week for German politics in decades as the Bundestag on Friday held three nail-biting votes ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it could have been passed with support from the far right AfD, have rocked German ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign for the February election.