An ultimately failed tightening of German asylum policy with the help of the votes of the right-wing populist Alternative for ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Angela Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, which was then part of West Germany. Her father, ...

Merkel, who was born Angela Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, traveled a few months later with her mother, Herlind, to Soviet-occupied East Germany. There they met up with her father ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany ... and he was in power for a mere 10 days more than Mutti Merkel (“Mother Merkel”), as the country’s first female chancellor came to be known.