When former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the parliament decided to move the nation’s capital to Berlin 12 years ago, urban pundits predicted Bonn would wither on the vine after the many government ...

Bonn prepares to become West Germany's capital city. Newsreel visited the city, best known for being the birthplace of Beethoven, to see how work was progressing on turning it into the new capital ...

That’s nothing new to Bonn. The city – which has a 2,000 year history and was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 – has hosted the annual Beethovenfest, an international festival ...

Bonn, complains one longtime German diplomat, is "not a capital but a form of capital punishment." A guidebook once described the foggy little university town (1946 pop. 94,694), the ...

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany had to decide which city would be the new capital. The contenders were the West German city of Bonn and the East German city of Berlin and the two fought ...

B for Bonn. B for Boring. So it has been said of West Germany’s former capital city, about which A local politician once famously sniped that “the best thing about Bonn is the train to Munich”.

BONN, Germany (Thursday 26 June 2025): Hopes for a strong foundation for COP30 were dashed when the mid-year negotiations struggled to agree on key points – adaptation, finance and the implementation ...

Bonn, Germany (12 June 2025) – As delegates convene in Bonn for the UN Climate Change Conference, WWF is calling on negotiators to lay the groundwork for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to become a defining ...