Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful Angela Merkel a few months after retiring as German chancellor in 2021. But: “I’m still searching.” In the interview ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's successor has been announced ... She announced in October 2018 that she would not run for reelection in 2021. She has been serving as acting chancellor since ...

Angela Dorothea Merkel became Chancellor in 2005, after serving as leader of the opposition from 2002 to 2005. She was chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union between 2000 and 2018 ...

The opening chapters of Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021, Angela Merkel’s surprisingly blunt new autobiography, provoke a mild ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied Thursday that she had covered up an intelligence report concluding that a ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Friday for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from prison on the one-year anniversary of his near-fatal poisoning.

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...

Merkel’s political career was shaped by these early years, by her ingrained belief in freedom, the word she chose as a title ...

Merkel enjoyed an improbable rise from East German chemistry ... But since retiring from public life, in 2021, she has faced criticism for having misjudged the ideological threat from Washington, the ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied Thursday that she had covered up an intelligence report concluding that a ...