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 ...

Merkel blamed party leader Friedrich Merz for going back on a pledge not to work with the AfD. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU ...

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.