Deceased French president Francois Mitterrand in 1989 gave his approval to German unification on condition that then Chancellor Helmut Kohl opened the way for the creation of an only currency in ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

October 3 is the date the Germans celebrate the unification of their country and they decided that those celebrations should ...

Helmut Kohl, Germany’s long-serving unity chancellor and a towering figure in European unification, has died aged 87 after a long illness. Dr Kohl was elected West German chancellor in 1982 and ...