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 ...

Angela Merkel, who last month published her memoirs on her 16 years as German chancellor, was a great tactician. But she was dead wrong on many of the strategic questions hurled at Germany during her ...

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 ...

Some parts of Putin’s speech seemed “absolutely absurd ... Council with veto power,” says the former chancellor. Angela Merkel was first elected to the Bundestag in 1990, and from 2000 ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of hope for the conservative CDU party. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over ...

Although just three years have passed since Merkel left office, the world has changed so dramatically that her chancellorship already feels like it belongs to a different era. Her new memoir finds her ...

Angela Merkel has sought to calm the nerves of European leaders over a second Donald Trump presidency claiming that he is not as ill-disposed to them as many believe. With Trump making his first ...

But at least Ardern was a gifted communicator. Angela Merkel, on the other hand, not only lacked political substance but often also the ability to convey her messages. Her speeches were notorious ...

Reawakening ghosts from a dark past, Germany once again claims to have the authority to define who is a Jew. Those who say ...

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HOW ANGELA Merkel, as Germany’s environment minister ... He reported that many people had waited for him at the end of his speech, wanting to shake his hand, even though they knew he wasn’t really ...