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 ...

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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 ...

Angela Merkel ... and Brandenburg. Merkel’s migration policies and the fact that she shoved her conservative Christian Democrats both to the left and towards the Greens are reasons for the AfD’s surge ...

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, ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of ... in German politics and society. You can sign up here for the weekly email newsletter Berlin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

HOW ANGELA Merkel, as Germany’s environment minister ... He told me to split up the group of “Friends” — representatives of the developed countries on the one hand and representatives of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the future, perhaps during one of her Baltic walks, Angela Merkel might ... rhombus of a hand gesture.

What lessons on leadership does Angela Merkel have after 16 years served as Chancellor of Germany ... Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: ...