Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel received her nation's highest honor Monday – becoming only the third leader to claim the award. Merkel received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from ...

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. Their ...

Longtime conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel has rarely appeared in public and even more rarely commented on politics since ...

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to former chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel about a new chapter of leadership in the United States. Angela Merkel served Germany as chancellor for 16 years, the only ...

Baltic and Polish leaders slammed the former German chancellor for saying they had opposed talks with Russia before the ...

BERLIN — The memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be released in November, nearly three years after her 16-year tenure leading one of Europe's biggest powers ended. The roughly ...

A Feb. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows several images of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler. "The Fourth Reich began on November 22, 2005, when Angela Merkel ...

Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has received the country's highest honour, the Order of Merit. Mrs Merkel, who was chancellor for 16 years, received the award at a ceremony in the German ...

Little is known about how Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel is spending her retirement, and that seems to be the way she likes it. Thanks to a German crime fiction series adapted for ...

Other Facts:Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl sometimes referred to her as "the girl." She is a trained physicist. Timeline:1978-1990 - Research associate at Zentralinstitut fur Physikalische Chemie in ...