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

In an interview with the Hungarian website Partizán, former German chancellor Angela Merkel said that she had sought to establish a new EU format for dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

BERLIN — The former German chancellor remains unrepentant. During a recent stop in Hungary to promote her memoir, “Freedom,” Angela Merkel suggested Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine could have ...

Angela Merkel's remarks on the Russia-Ukraine war have drawn criticism from Poland, Latvia and Estonia, while Moscow praised the former chancellor's stance. https://p ...

Angela Merkel's explosive claim that Poland is to blame for the war in Ukraine has sparked fury, with European politicians accusing her of having 'blood on her hands' and rewarding Moscow's aggression ...

Some politicians in Germany still believe that the Baltics and Poland are indirectly to blame for Russia launching its full-scale invasion, said MP Marko Mihkelson, commenting on an interview with ...

Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called on Europe to stand up to President Trump on tariffs and said Vice President Vance’s views on “freedom” represented a threat to democracy, ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control with the ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in power ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her crumbling legacy. The effort is backfiring. Her new book, “Freedom”—published in late November in nearly 30 languages—is riling up even some of her ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to a participant of a Girls' Day career event at the Chancellery to attract female pupils to careers in IT, technological and natural science sectors of the ...