If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

The former chancellor can’t stand the America First policies that clash with her fellow travelers in international institutions.

Merkel, a more centrist politician than Merz and his long-time rival within the CDU, criticised the move as "wrong" in a rare intervention in day-to-day politics. Merkel, chancellor from 2005 to ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...

Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate, was the adult in the room. Yet when Merkel’s autobiography, Freedom, landed in late 2024, the reputation of one of modern Europe’s longest-lasting ...