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

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

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

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 ...

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 has urged the preservation of Europe's transatlantic partnership with the United States ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...