Germany’s first female chancellor served for 16 years from 2005 to 2021 Fact checked by Michael Rosenston Reviewed by Samantha Silberstein Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17 ...

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

A ngela Merkel, often dubbed the world’s most powerful woman, served as Germany’s Chancellor from 2005 to 2021. Her tenure was marked by significant achievements and steady leadership ...

Angela Merkel ... continued: “My sense was that she viewed the context of her decision as related to the need to provide leadership for liberal values.” Obama and Merkel declined to comment ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic ... “then that’s not my country.” And so this time, the woman who trained as a quantum chemist did not ...

For the past five years Angela Merkel ... mein mädchen (“my girl”). Yet when Kohl ran into trouble with a major funding scandal in 1998, which would later end his career, Merkel shirked ...

Angela Merkel ... continued: “My sense was that she viewed the context of her decision as related to the need to provide leadership for liberal values.” Obama and Merkel declined to comment ...

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 ...