Social Democrat politician Aydan Özoğuz was Angela Merkel's minister of state concerned with immigration, refugees and integration from 2013 to 2018. She describes to Josephine McDermott visiting her ...

BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media, I'm Bob Garfield. It will come as no surprise that in Turkey you can be jailed for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. What is shocking is that a critic of ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has a moral duty to fight rising anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday in an emotional speech at a Berlin synagogue to mark the 80th anniversary of a Nazi ...

Angela Merkel was elected chancellor of Germany on November 22, 2005, becoming the first woman to hold that job. In many ways ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to stay in power for a few more years. She will finish her term, she says, in 2021 before leaving. But the longtime leader has already resigned as leader of her ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel signaled on Saturday that she was prepared to consider changes to a widely criticized new law that aims to rid social media of hate speech. The ...

LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Less than 24 hours after Angela Merkel's protegee won a statement of support from her party, Bavarian conservative leader Markus Soeder gave a barnstorming speech to the ...

A day after his speech to the Muslim world, President Obama moved quickly to build momentum for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, telling reporters Friday that he's sending special envoy George ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir, “Freedom,” already translated into 30 languages, could not be timed more perfectly. The current German government, under Chancellor Olaf Scholz — whose ...

Two women have thoroughly dominated the politics of their respective northern European countries in living memory. Beyond their gender, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher are often lumped together as ...

These pejoratives condemn former German Christian Democratic Union Chancellor Angela Merkel’s overweight 700-page memoir as not worth the price of admission. Merkel served 16 years as chancellor from ...