Angela Merkel said this a few months before she became German chancellor. In a July 2005 interview with the Financial Times journalists Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, she explained her approach to ...

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 ...

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life. The ...

A newly unveiled portrait of former German chancellor Angela Merkel has fuelled a massive rise in visitors to Berlin's Bode Museum. Since the painting went on display on July 1, visitor numbers have ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday unveiled her portrait that will join those of her male predecessors in Berlin's chancellery building. Merkel cut a ribbon to reveal the painting by ...

Telluride: A comprehensive look at the former German chancellor follows her indirect path to becoming the most powerful woman in the world. If Germans are notoriously stoic, then Angela Merkel is ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that she tried hard when she was in office to prevent the situation in Ukraine from developing to the current state, adding that she does not ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is stepping down after a 16-year ...

Angela Merkel’s 16-year tenure as Germany’s chancellor formally ended Wednesday with the 67-year-old fist-bumping successor Olaf Scholz following the official handover ceremony. Earlier Wednesday, ...

It seems as though Angela Merkel has been the leader of Germany forever, and in fact, she's governed the country for close to a generation. But when the most powerful woman in the world first won the ...

Angela Merkel, no-nonsense chancellor of Germany for 16 years, is about to step down. Here in America’s pragmatic Midwest, we will miss her steady and thus simpatico presence. Europe will miss her too ...