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

A Costly Cease-Fire Deal The more things change, well, the more they . . . So it is with the perpetual German resentments of the U.S. Recently German chancellor Angela Merkel reminded us of that ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservatives view Angela Merkel’s legacy as a liability in their battle with the far right.

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 ...

Germany’s own “iron lady,” the most significant European woman since British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel would war behind the scenes with the outlaw 45th occupant of the ...

Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005 ... Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005. (Jockel Finck/AP) If this is an ...

Europe’s most powerful leader is a refugee from a time and place where her power would have been unimaginable. The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic ...

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

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel ... drug trafficking as reasons for the failure. Merkel's predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, committed Germany in 2001 to the US-led military coalition to ...

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, firmly believes that the EU should be the leaders of the fight against climate change. That's why she's asked Germany's fellow members in the EU to accomplish ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight ... Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005, Merkel made history not only as the first female leader of the federal republic but also as the ...