Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for ... prudence that were the stocks-in-trade of this unflashy pastor’s daughter who was raised in communist East Germany. Her cautious solidity ...

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and beyond.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is the latest figure to offer ample compliments to a president known for his transactional, if not unpredictable, approach to foreign policy.

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 ...

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

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He occasionally refused to sign bills into law due to constitutional concerns and didn’t always make himself popular with the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose choice he was for the ...