Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl – the emblematic figure of the European political scene after the Second World War – died on Friday 16 June, at the age of 87.
Chancellor from 1982 to 1988, the father of German reunification – between the GDR and the FRG – in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the collapse of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe, Helmut Kohl – with the French president at the time, François Mitterrand, at his side - contributed to...