It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming ...

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.

Ronny Hartmann / Getty Images Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954) was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the office and the second ...

A harsh critic of Germany's past welcome too many Muslim migrants, al-Abdulmohsen wrote on the platform X that he wished ex-chancellor Angela Merkel could be jailed for life or executed.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out in favour of reforming Germany's constitutional limit on government spending, the so-called debt brake, which is being hotly debated ahead of ...

Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005 ... Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005. (Jockel Finck/AP) If this is an ...

In her book, the former German chancellor stubbornly defends decisions that have become increasingly unpopular, alienating ...

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era. Now Mrs Merkel’s legacy is tarnished, Germany is in ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued President-elect Trump does not believe in “any win-win situation,” and it makes international collaboration difficult. Merkel, who served as chancellor ...

When Angela Merkel met Donald Trump at ... exactly what effect he wanted to achieve." In 2005, Ms Merkel was the first woman to rise to Germany's highest office before stepping down in 2021.

Angela Merkel appears to have reversed the natural order of things. The former chancellor won four elections and governed Germany for 16 years to almost universal acclaim. She, unlike most in her ...

Germany, March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has remained ambiguous.