The 20th Congress of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) came to an end in Berlin on Wednesday. The Congress’ official motto— “work, solidarity, justice”—has nothing to do with the reality of ...

It is not the parliament that must grant it. With this terse statement, Frederick William IV of Prussia rejected the title of Kaiser der Deutschen (Emperor of the Germans) offered to him by the ...

European commissioners Günter Verheugen and Pascal Lamy on Monday debated the idea of a Franco-German confederation, as a core of deeper European integration. Speaking at the Goethe Institute on the ...

The German far-right AfD aims to dismantle the EU in its current form and transform it into a confederation of nation-states with limited power, the party stated during its EU election kick-off on ...

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