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CAN EUROPE MEET ITS CLIMATE COMMITMENTS?
TALKING EUROPE It's almost two years since the historic Paris Agreement on limiting global warming was signed. Now, at the COP23 summit in Bonn from Nov..... READ MORE›
GERMANS SEE ALMOST NO PROGRESS ON EAST-WEST UNITY IN THE PAST 7 YEARS STUDY SAYS
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
GERMAN PLANE HIJACKED TO SOMALIA IN 1977 BROUGHT BACK HOME
A Lufthansa passenger jet hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home... READ MORE›
GERMAN PLANE HIJACKED TO SOMALIA IN 1977 BROUGHT BACK HOME
A Lufthansa passenger jet hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : West Germany
GERMANY REUNIFIED 26 YEARS AGO, BUT SOME DIVISIONS ARE STILL STRONG
Eastern Germany has taken in far fewer refugees than western Germany... READ MORE›
HELMUT KOHL CHANCELLOR WHO REUNITED GERMANY DIES AT 87
East Germany, thought to have had the strongest economy of any European Communist country, turned out to be bankrupt... READ MORE›
2012: HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ELIE WIESEL ON SYRIA
Elie Wiesel dead at 87 survived Holocaust, won Nobel... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
BERLIN MARKET ATTACK MARS SQUARE WHERE THREE ERAS COEXIST
My friend Uli Kempendorff, who grew up in East Berlin, emailed me on Monday night... READ MORE›
NINE SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
An East Berlin policeman adds bricks to heighten the Berlin Wall to 15 feet Oct... READ MORE›
HELMUT SCHMIDT ASSERTIVE WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR DIES AT 96
For decades, Mr. Schmidt was one of West Germany's most popular politicians... READ MORE›
HELMUT KOHL: LEADER WHO UNITED EUROPE AS WELL AS GERMANY
Both reasoned that Europe would only be safe and secure if its two leading powers and its most frequent antagonists, France and Germany, worked in tandem... READ MORE›
MISSING WOMAN FOUND 30 YEARS AFTER MAN CONFESSED TO HER MURDER
Ms Pazsitka said she spent the last 11 years in Dusseldorf, previously living in several other cities in west Germany, according to police... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
THE SPIES WHO LOVED ME: MY DAD, THE STASI AGENT
He was locked away for three years after 10 informants betrayed him to the Stasi, East Germany's feared secret service... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: THE GUARD WHO OPENED THE GATE - AND MADE HISTORY
Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: GOOGLE COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIDEO DOODLE
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
GNTER SCHABOWSKI WHOSE GAFFE HELPED BURST THE BERLIN WALL DIES AT 86
Within hours, thousands of East Germans were thronging the checkpoints to West Berlin, demanding to be allowed to cross... READ MORE›
FATHER OF GERMAN REUNIFICATION HELMUT KOHL DIES AGED 87
Helmut Kohl was a great German and a great European... READ MORE›
CLASHES BETWEEN GERMANS AND REFUGEES SPARK NEW TENSIONS. THIS IS WHAT ISIS ENVISIONED.
Wednesday's clashes were only the latest signs of rising tensions between refugees and locals in Germany... READ MORE›
SOME LEADERS LOVE BORDER WALLS, BUT DO THEY WORK?
East Berlin 'cut off from the world' The Berlin Wall wasn't built to collect taxes or to stop invaders, but to keep people in... READ MORE›
NO BAILOUT CAN SAVE GREECE FROM ITSELF
Fuest's logic is simple Emergency loans to Greece are not really loans... READ MORE›
EGYPT S GLOBAL TELECOM TO SELL DJEZZY MAJORITY STAKE FOR 2.6 BILLION
An unsparing 1985 address to the Bonn Parliament on the 40th anniversary of Germany's surrender in World War II earned him respect abroad... READ MORE›
GERMANS HAVE BEEN REFUGEES BEFORE - THEY SEE THEMSELVES IN THESE SYRIANS
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
HELMUT SCHMIDT DIES; WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR WAS TRANSFORMATIVE LEADER
Mr. Schmidt and West Germany in the mid-'70s were strongly pro-American... READ MORE›
STASI VICTIMS STILL IN TRAUMA AS GERMANY CHEERS 25 YEARS SINCE WALL FELL
2 billion euros on rehabilitation payments, according to a 2013 government report examining the progress made in redressing East Germany's wrongs... READ MORE›
CZECH REPUBLIC TO HAND OVER 900 ACRES OF TERRITORY TO POLAND IN BORDER DISPUTE
When the war was over the German population had left and Poland expanded westwards, meaning that a new border needed to be settled... READ MORE›
WERNER STILLER, EAST GERMAN SPY AND DEFECTOR, DIES AT 69
The defection roiled the spy agency 17 of its agents were convicted in the West and at least 15 were called back to East Germany... READ MORE›
EGON BAHR WHO LAID GROUNDWORK FOR GERMAN REUNIFICATION DIES AT 93
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
HELMUT KOHL COFFIN TO BE DRAPED ONLY IN EU FLAG AS WORLD LEADERS GATHER TO HONOUR LATE GERMAN CHANCELLOR
In an interview on the weekly Die Zeit website, Walter Kohl criticised the lack of national funeral services, which were refused by his stepmother Maike Kohl-Richter... READ MORE›
WEST BERLIN RECALLS 'ISLAND' OF FREEDOM THAT VANISHED WITH WALL
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
GUENTER SCHABOWSKI, E. GERMAN WHO ANNOUNCED BERLIN WALL OPENING, DIES
Guenter Schabowski, who announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, in 1989... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | GERMANY'S 'CHANCELLOR OF REUNIFICATION' LEFT BEHIND A LASTING, AND YET UNFINISHED LEGACY
Roland Holschneider DRESDEN, Germany -- Some world leaders may find it challenging to direct one country... READ MORE›