Angela Merkel's overweight memoir shows how ... would not expand forces eastward if East and West Germany were permitted to unite — a promise with a truncated shelf life. Additionally, on ...

Merkel will personally accept the award for the "most successful biography of the last ten years" and open the event with a keynote speech. Along with several honorary guests, 200 students will ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she had to consider whether she is a "feminist." She joined NPR's Mary Louise Kelly to discuss her new memoir, Freedom.

Chancellor Angela Merkel onstage in Berlin with the shadows of her fellow cabinet members in 2005. ... The fall of the Berlin Wall presented her, at 35, with a new life.

Ms. Merkel, the former German chancellor who left office in 2021 after 16 years in power, recalls a blunder from the early days of her political career, when she was the opposition leader to ...