Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005, and she held that position until she retired in 2021. She was the first woman to be chancellor and led Germany longer than any ...

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and ...

(JTA) — After a German court criminalized the nonmedical circumcision of boys in 2012, Angela Merkel did something very out of character for the “rule-of-law chancellor,” as she has been ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her ... any of the policies of her four-term chancellorship, from 2005 to 2021, might have been misguided.

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming ...

Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005. (Jockel Finck/AP) If this is an accurate recounting of her personal feelings at the time ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel, takes part as a witness in the ... The German parliamentary inquiry is looking into the 2021 withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan, which quickly fell ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in ...

The successor to the country’s first female chancellor will face expectations to maintain Angela Merkel's achievements. A review of the controversial orders – widely panned at the time as a ...

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 ...