Angela Merkel: an era ends—and with it a project unique in the world. Between 1991 and 2021 this remarkable politician was photographed year after year, with a short hiatus, by Herlinde Koelbl. Each ...

A majority of Germans believe that conditions in their country have worsened since former conservative chancellor Angela Merkel's tenure ended, according to a new survey by the opinion research ...

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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, ...

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

Center-left leader Olaf Scholz on Wednesday became Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, opening a new era for the European Union’s most populous nation and largest economy after Angela Merkel ...

EXCEPTIONS PROVE who rules. In the summer of 2015 Angela Merkel suspended the EU’s asylum rules and allowed 1m people into Germany, in the most controversial decision of her tenure. Rather than being ...

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is famous for her plain but direct style. “I have no charisma,” she once complained to Tony Blair, “and I’m not good at communicating.” She was wrong on both ...

For many people, it is a given that the most powerful woman in the world would be a feminist. As someone who has risen to the top echelons of power in a world dominated by men, she must inherently ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down after 16 years. Author and former NPR correspondent Kati Marton has written a new biography of Merkel titled, appropriately, The Chancellor. Marton ...

Images from the former chancellor’s 16 years leading Germany, and from her life before. Lawmakers applauding Angela Merkel, front left on balcony, in the German Parliament on 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 ...