Thirty-one Octobers ago, Germany suddenly and irreversibly reunited after more than 40 years of division. It was sudden, because the Berlin Wall had fallen less than a year earlier and reunification ...

Former chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, has called German reunification "a great stroke of luck," despite the challenges, in an interview as the nation celebrates 35 years since ...

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at the ceremony in the Mecklenburg State Theater. As part of the Bundesrat presidency, Schwerin is hosting the central celebrations for German Unity Day under ...

The Second Schleswig War of 1864 was a pivotal conflict that ignited the flames of unity and reshaped Europe's destiny. Germany, divided and yearning for unification, saw in this clash an opportunity ...

Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis two decades later, died Dec. 26. He ...

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of German reunification, former World Bank President Robert Zoellick and former German Federal Finance Minister Theo Waigel discussed the continued ...

BERLIN — Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, died Friday at his home in ...

BERLIN — Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis two ...