Oskar Lafontaine, the prominent SPD (Social Democratic Party) leader who five years ago resigned as finance minister in the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, launched a media offensive last ...

Amid growing social conflicts in Europe, the founder and former chair of the Left Party, Oskar Lafontaine, has made a proposal about how the austerity measures in Europe can be intensified and the ...

New documents issued by whistle-blower Wikileaks show that the U.S. National Security Agency has been spying on German officials for more than a decade. World News // 7 years ago German chancellor ...

The script was quite specific--and, if you were a businessman, more than a little alarming. After leading their Social Democratic Party to victory in national elections last September, Gerhard ...

IF NICKNAMES marked the measure of a man, then Oskar Lafontaine would be a giant. Over the years he has been called Red Oskar, enfant terrible, the most dangerous man in Europe and, almost endearingly ...

WHAT an excitement! The man dubbed by a British newspaper as “the most dangerous man in Europe”, whose pronouncements could send the markets reeling, was finally going to spill the beans. For six ...

The Factory, an "alternative" venue in Hamburg's hip Altona district, was so full that police had to stop more people entering. Inside, crimson-faced and in front of a banner of the same hue, "Red ...