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 ...

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised US President Donald Trump's political style, saying the recently inaugurated ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of ...

One concrete example here is the German experience with Russia and its energy supply under Helmut Kohl and basically all other German chancellors. Because there was once a kind of limit to what ...

In his mixture of memoir and manifesto, an updated version of a hardcover published in 2023, Döpfner writes about the fallacy of the idea he first learned as a young journalist from then-German ...

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson received accolades from around the world for their important and insightful book, 'Why Nations Fail' (2012). Peter Diamond, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2010), ...

The entrepreneur, 48, shot to fame in 1990s as a so-called “wunderkind” of German business, earning the admiration of the country’s chancellor Helmut Kohl. By the time he was 34, however ...

Merz lost a leadership contest against Merkel, who took over the CDU in 2002 as the party struggled to rebuild after Helmut Kohl's reign ended in a slush fund scandal. Merkel went on to become ...

The same month he welcomed West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, highlighting again his “peace through strength” policy in Europe. In December, he met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in New ...