along with several of her experiences as leader of Germany from 2005 through 2021. One moment Merkel detailed was when former President Bush raised eyebrows when be caused her to stiffen when ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued President-elect Trump does not believe in “any win-win situation,” and it makes international collaboration difficult. Merkel, who served as ...

Germany’s first female chancellor served ... A very large increase, but still below the $400,000 paid to the U.S. president. Merkel has been praised for her pragmatism and ability to compromise.

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

the head of the Foreign Relations Committee in Germany’s parliament, told me recently. Tension has consumed the Trump-Merkel relationship from the start. Well before he became president ...

the Zurich-born president of the Conference of European Rabbis. His organization in 2013 honored Merkel with a prize for “making a crucial intervention for enshrining milah in Germany and beyond ...

Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005, Merkel made history not only as ... doughty German chancellor standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin buoyed liberal hearts across ...

But it is perhaps her dealings with Russian President Putin that have drawn ... There was no such warmth with Trump, who had criticized Merkel and Germany in his 2016 campaign.

That was not the type of American president Merkel and other Germans were used to. Merkel was born in 1954, when Germany was split into two countries: communist, Soviet-aligned East Germany, where ...

In Merkel’s defense, Germany now polls as the most anti-American ... the current tough-talking and often provocative American president or that she had harbored animus toward the U.S. even ...

Merkel: Donald Trump, as president, was a person who very strongly ... What we have understood in Europe, and in particular in Germany, is that we need to do more for our defense, which we did ...