Topic: Helmut Kohl

German president pelted with eggs

AFP Global Edition - 310 days ago
German President Christian Wulff shrugged off an egg attack by a lone assailant Thursday, saying it was the price of having the common touch.Wulff, at 51 the country's youngest-ever head of state, had just arrived in the western city of ...

Politics & Parenthood

Big Think - 321 days ago
IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Walter Kohl, son of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, has published a tell-all book describing in moving...

Domestic Affairs

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 452 days ago
The domestic political scene was dominated during the year by the uproar surrounding CDU financing. Another issue closely related to belt-tightening was the question of continuing subsidies for the development of eastern Germany. "German unity will be completed when the special judicial ...

Maverick German theatre director Schlingensief dies

AFP Global Edition - 546 days ago
Christoph Schlingensief, one of Germany's most provocative theatre directors, died of lung cancer on Saturday, organisers of the Ruhr Triennale festival said. He was 49.Schlingensief, a director from Berlin's Volksbuhne theatre, was due to present his latest production "S ...

Live by Politics, Die by Politics

Forbes - 649 days ago
A decade ago, I was invited by the new publication, European Affairs, to write an article on the new Euro. According to the May 8-9 Wall Street Journal, Mr. Kohl, at his 80th birthday party, made the following statement: He issued, according ...

German court convicts arms dealer of tax evasion

AFP Global Edition - 654 days ago
<div><p>A German court on Wednesday sentenced a Canadian-German arms dealer, who was a key player in a party funding scandal that helped propel Chancellor Angela Merkel to power, to eight years in prison.</p><p>Karlheinz Schreiber, 76, who holds ...

State demands nine years for Canadian-German arms dealer

AFP American Edition - 656 days ago
<div><p>German prosecutors on Monday demanded more than nine years in prison for an arms dealer extradited from Canada over a party funding scandal that helped catapult Chancellor Angela Merkel to power.</p><p>State prosecutors called on the court in ...

Canadian-German arms dealer faces May 5 verdict

AFP American Edition - 659 days ago
<div><p>A verdict is expected May 5 in the case of an arms dealer extradited from Canada to Germany over an alleged role in a scandal that helped propel Chancellor Angela Merkel to power, the court said Friday.</p><p>Karlheinz ...

Canadian-German arms dealer faces German court

AFP American Edition - 761 days ago
An arms dealer extradited from Canada to Germany over his alleged role in a scandal that helped propel Chancellor Angela Merkel to power went on trial Monday.After losing a decade-long battle to avoid extradition, Karlheinz Schreiber, 75, appeared in court in ...

Kohl, Bush, Gorbachev remember Cold War in Berlin

AFP Global Edition - 840 days ago
Helmut Kohl, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev hailed their excellent relations at a Berlin cabaret on Saturday, 20 years after the Cold War leaders watched over the Wall's fall.The German ex-chancellor (1982-1998), US former president (1989-1993) and last Soviet leader ...