Merkel and Olaf Scholz were among those on the man’s list, while investigators had been monitoring a ‘right-wing extremist’ ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is stepping down after a 16-year tenure, nearly beat her mentor, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, for the longest run in office. Kohl served as chancellor during ...

German police said on Saturday they have launched an investigation after a mock tombstone was found in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s electoral offices, apparently to decry measures aimed at ...

BERLIN, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The coronavirus situation in Germany is still very serious even though infection numbers are not rising so fast, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, after federal and ...

BERLIN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) will choose a new leader in mid-January, the party's general secretary said on Saturday after a Dec. 4 party ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to former chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel about a new chapter of leadership in the United States. Angela Merkel served Germany as chancellor for 16 years, the only ...

MUNICH — She leaves a void in her wake. After 16 years beset by crises and critics, Angela Merkel, arguably the world’s most powerful woman, is stepping down from the world stage. On Sunday, Germany ...

The popularity of most politicians follows a similar course. Some grow to be palatable enough to win an election and then fall increasingly out of favour before eventually being booted out. Their ...

BERLIN - Angela Merkel was assured of a place in the history books as soon as she became Germany's first female chancellor on Nov. 22, 2005. Over the next 16 years, she was credited with raising ...

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 ...

A series of crime novels now adapted for TV imagines former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a crime-solving detective. How might a former chancellor of Germany spend her retirement? The series ...