Ronny Hartmann / Getty Images Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954) was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the office and the second ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to a participant of a Girls' Day career event at the Chancellery to attract female pupils to careers in IT, technological and natural science sectors of the ...

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

After publicly criticizing Anna Netrebko due to her past actions in Russia, former chancellor Angela Merkel attended a performance of “La Forza del Destino” at teh Teatro alla Scala. In a now-deleted ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of hope for the conservative CDU party. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over ...

Angela Merkel, who last month published her memoirs on her 16 years as German chancellor, was a great tactician. But she was dead wrong on many of the strategic questions hurled at Germany during her ...

Last night, nearly three years to the day since she handed over the reins of power to Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel appeared at London’s Royal Festival Hall to promote her newly published memoir, ...

Nevertheless, it is a reminder again of Germany’s toxic reliance on Russian money. This is hardly a shock. Few countries have ...

Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2015. The German leader had a complex relationship with the Russian president. Reuters When Angela Merkel stepped down in December 2021 after four ...

But at least Ardern was a gifted communicator. Angela Merkel, on the other hand, not only lacked political substance but often also the ability to convey her messages. Her speeches were notorious ...

For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as German chancellor it was my job as a journalist to observe and analyze her. And although I often disagreed with her policies, I can’t deny that her ...

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