Merkel’s political career was shaped by these early years, by her ingrained belief in freedom, the word she chose as a title ...
“Angela Who?,” the Economist recently asked ... function in a kind of twilight zone of intentions and thoughts. Merkel’s parents explained that the ubiquity of the Stasi, or state security ...
Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.