Within the course of my official duties, the most common question I have been asked since the fall of the Honecker regime in East Germany relates to the French perspective on German unification. There ...

Europe's intellectuals have played a prominent role as public educators since the Enlightenment. Intellectual discourse has often remained inseparable from a nation's past and present. This lucid and ...

The Brandenburg Gate symbolized freedom after the fall of the wall. A new Deutsche Welle poll surveying Germans ages 18-29 finds 90 percent think German unification was so successful it should be a ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 28 (UPI) --The Russian parliament is considering a denunciation of Germany's 1990 unification as an illegal territorial grab of East Germany by West Germany. The move is an attempt to ...

Leipzig. — In old Leipzig, the “city of heroes,” the site of mass demonstrations that led to the collapse of the East German regime two years ago, Auerbach’s Keller is still in business. It is a place ...

German unification has turned out to be a profound shock for which German policy planners were unprepared, writes Eckart Arnold, with the East German economy brought to the point of collapse. As a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A towering figure of post-war European politics, Helmut Kohl pushed through German reunification and was a driving force behind the creation of the euro during a 16-year reign as ...

DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — Hundreds of far-right protesters shouted abuse at Chancellor Angela Merkel as German leaders gathered in the eastern city of Dresden on Monday to celebrate the anniversary of ...

More than half of German respondents said they would recommend unification of the Korean Peninsula, drawing on their own ...