Outgoing President Joachim Gauck criticized US President Donald Trump in an interview on Friday, saying the American leader is calling into question what the US and Europe have worked towards together.
Outgoing President Joachim Gauck warned in a talk on Wednesday that his country's democracy is at risk amid major international shifts, including Donald Trump becoming US President on Friday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partners appeared more divided than ever on Sunday in their search for a joint candidate to be Germany's next president, highlighting the tensions between the parties ahead of next year's general election.
German President Joachim Gauck was confronted by some aggressive right-wing extremists during an official weekend visit to Saxony, including one man carrying a knife.
President Joachim Gauck begged forgiveness for Nazi war crimes at the end of his visit to Greece on Friday, in one of the clearest appeals to victims' families ever uttered by a German head of state.
Anti-corruption campaigners called on German President Joachim Gauck on Wednesday to clamp down on donations to political parties from big business after Angela Merkel's CDU accepted nearly €700,000 from BMW.
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The presidents of Germany and France on Wednesday joined hands with a survivor of the Nazis' worst atrocity on French soil in a historic moment of reconciliation.
Joachim Gauck and his French counterpart Francois Hollande will make a historic visit on Wednesday to a ghost village in west-central France where 642 people were massacred by Nazi soldiers in one of the worst atrocities during World War II.
German President Joachim Gauck said on Friday he had been so deeply troubled by the NSA spying revelations that he had wondered whether it was still safe to send emails and talk openly on the phone.
German President Joachim Gauck had harsh words for tax evaders on Thursday, whom he called “irresponsible” and “anti-social”. The rare political intervention for Germany's head of state came in the wake of a high profile tax-dodging scandal.
The police on Friday detonated a suspected letter bomb sent to the official residence of Germany's president in Berlin. It later turned out to be harmless.
German President Joachim Gauck, who celebrated his first year in office on Monday, has said he felt sorry for his beleaguered predecessor Christian Wulff and his now ex-wife Bettina.
Germany's president has presented a vision for Europe that fills a leadership void left by Chancellor Angela Merkel and could possibly even show the EU the way out of its current crisis, comments <b>ZEIT ONLINE's Ludwig Greven</b>.
Germany is not seeking to impose its will on the rest of the European Union, the country's president said on Friday, also urging Britain to stay inside the Europe it helped "save" after World War II.
President Joachim Gauck has called on Germans to see refugees and immigrants as a chance for the country's future, saying they should be welcomed with open arms as they could help maintain living standards for coming generations.
German Olympic hero David Storl, who won the shot put silver medal at London 2012, has been denied a state honour from the president because of an unfortunate incident with a dog and an air rifle.
President Joachim Gauck has moved a new series of portraits of his predecessors to a side room in the Bellevue palace, after a series of complaints from visitors that the paintings were ugly. The artist was unimpressed.
German President Joachim Gauck paid tribute on Wednesday to the Czech victims of a 1942 Nazi massacre that razed a village near Prague in retaliation for the assassination of a senior Nazi.
Thousands gathered in Rostock at the weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of the country’s worst xenophobic attack since the war. The Local’s <b>media roundup</b> shows how the president failed to impress by sticking to the past.
German President Joachim Gauck will delay approving German participation in the EU fiscal pact and new bailout fund, his office said on Thursday after the top court said it would need more time to examine a likely legal challenge.
German President Joachim Gauck said on Tuesday that his first state visit to Israel should underline the "always special relationship" between the two countries.
A large majority of Germans view Israel as "aggressive" and think Germany no longer has a special obligation to the Jewish nation, according to an opinion poll released Wednesday ahead of a state visit by Germany's president.
Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has apologised to German President Joachim Gauck for failing to shake his hand after his penalty miss meant that Bayern lost Saturday's Champions League final to Chelsea.
