If someone had said in 1988 that a woman who grew up under communism would lead a reunited Germany before long, few would have believed it. Now it’s hard to imagine Germany and Europe without Angela ...

Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union ...

Angela Merkel has survived multiple crises but her obstacle-strewn path to a fourth term has prompted suggestions she is past her peak, leaving Germans to ponder life without the veteran chancellor.

Long dubbed the "Queen of Europe", Germanys veteran Chancellor Angela Merkel emerges as the bruised survivor of her deepest crisis to govern for what many expect will be her final term. After 12 years ...