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Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

French gay TV's ads create controversy

France's gay oriented Pink TV has created rancor with ads featuring straight politicians François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl holding hands.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Kohl wins Stasi file seal

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl won a partial ban on the release of his East German secret police files.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Israel may buy more subs from Germany

Israel may buy two more submarines from Germany in addition to three purchased earlier, the German newspaper Bild reported Wednesday.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Schroeder sues over picture in crosshairs

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has told a publisher to change the cover of a book that depicts his face in the sights of a gun.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Koehler resigns IMF for presidency

The head of the International Monetary Fund Horst Koehler said Thursday he will resign from the organization to accept the nomination as president of Germany.

Top News // 2 decades ago

France invites Germany to D-Day events

France has invited the German chancellor to ceremonies for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings -- the first time a German leader has been invited.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Kennedy to receive Bush award

The 2003 George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service will be presented to Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the Bush library foundation says.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Ex-Geman leader loses battle over files

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl lost a legal effort Thursday to prevent the release of records compiled about him by the East German secret police.

Odd News // 2 decades ago

Commentary: Berlin's alehouse politicians

One of the worst putdowns in the German language is "Stammtischpolitiker," meaning alehouse politicians. It refers to beer-drinking characters devising solutions for the world's problems around a tavern's table. There is now a growing consensus among Germ

Business News // 2 decades ago

The Bear's Lair: Weasel Economics - I

The "Axis of Weasels" of France, Germany and now Belgium, satirically attributed to Donald Rumsfeld by the Web site "Scrappleface," is an idea whose time may have come. It refocuses one's perception, and provides an explanation for the alarming non-disapp

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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (German pronunciation: ; born 3 April 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany between 1982 and 1990 and of a reunited Germany between 1990 and 1998) and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. His 16-year tenure was the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck and oversaw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification. Kohl is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the German reunification and, together with French President François Mitterrand, the Maastricht Treaty, which created the European Union.

Kohl and François Mitterrand were the joint recipients of the Karlspreis in 1988. In 1998, Kohl was named Honorary Citizen of Europe by the European heads of state or government for his extraordinary work for European integration and cooperation, an honour previously only bestowed on Jean Monnet. In 1996, he won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation.

Kohl has been described as "the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" by former U.S. President George H. W. Bush.

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