avoiding a handshake with Baerbock but briefly shaking hands with Barrot. Baerbock has said that the new Syrian government's relations with Germany and the EU are conditional on women and men of ...

Giorgia Meloni was in Mar-a-Lago for barely five hours and every moment had to count. With so many leaders vying for Donald Trump’s attention, hers was a win. But after dinner with the president elect ...

Almost everywhere, the ground is still shaking from a succession of tectonic ... to shape 2016 included Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

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

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 first Ossi, as those of East German origin are ...

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 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 ...

German government officials accused Tesla founder Elon Musk on Monday of attempting to interfere in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections on behalf of the country's far-right political ...

In 2015, under Merkel’s leadership, more than 1 million refugees arrived in Germany. In September this year, AfD won a key election for the eight Landtag seats of the eastern state of Thuringia ...