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 ...

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

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of substance ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her crumbling legacy. The effort is backfiring. Her new book, “Freedom”—published in late November in nearly 30 languages—is riling up even ...

BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop ... Obama and Merkel sat at a round table covered with white linen as they spoke in English – a noteworthy gesture by a German leader who ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel signs her book "Freiheit. Memories 1954 - 2021". Merkel wrote her memoirs together with her long-time office manager Beate Baumann. Stefan Sauer/dpa Former ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel, takes part as a witness in the public session of the Bundestag's Committee of Inquiry into Afghanistan. Kay Nietfeld/dpa Former German chancellor Angela ...

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 ...

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 ...