The argument that Israeli security is Germany’s “reason of state” was reiterated by Merkel’s successor, Olaf Scholz, during his visit to Israel on Oct. 17, 2023 – just 10 days after the Hamas attack.

Some readers will find this enormous book not so much impossible as impassable. They should get a stronger torch, a nourishing snack on which to chew whenever they need to rest and reflect, and try ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on her new autobiography, which is astonishing considering how little of substance she has to say.

After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful woman in the world while dealing with its most powerful ...

Parents whose kids become confident, successful adults avoid this 2-word phrase, says Ivy League-trained psychologist Donte DiVincenzo achieves historic feat in Timberwolves win ...

Merkel’s parents explained that the ubiquity of the Stasi, or state security, meant that it was prudent to mask her true thoughts and feelings when talking on the telephone or to fellow pupils.

Angela Merkel’s book will be launched with fanfare in the West but also in China. Tickets for Tuesday evening’s initial presentation of the former German chancellor’s 736-page opus at the ...

“With Alexis Tsipras, Greece was now saved,” German chancellor at the peak of the Greek economic crisis, Angela Merkel, notes in her memoirs book, entitled “Freedom.” Talking about the “Greek crisis” ...

Merkel never heard from them again and her career as a Stasi informer ended before it even began. Anyone who completes her 688-page memoir, Freedom, though, will wish the young physicist had been ...

In 2002, Angela Merkel was the head of what was then Germany's main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Putin was the fresh-faced president of a new and modern Russia.

Finding out where those red lines were was "the art of living". Merkel's parents "did everything they could to create a safe space", letting her run free outside and encouraging conversation at home.