Once upon a time Germany’s Angela Merkel was feted as “the chancellor of the free world.” Now a growing chorus of critics at home and abroad is chastising the former leader for everything ...

Merkel has been praised as the most successful politician of modern times, and she is highly regarded for her pragmatic, non-ideological leadership style. Angela Merkel was born Angela Dorothea ...

In the future, perhaps during one of her Baltic walks, Angela Merkel might ... less to them than meets the eye. Merkel was said to embody a “post-heroic” style of leadership.

Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2015 ... The tensest negotiations are recounted in a contemporaneous style: She describes her refusal to loosen the European Union’s and Germany ...