Germany’s first female chancellor served for 16 years from 2005 to 2021 Fact checked by Michael Rosenston Reviewed by Samantha Silberstein Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17 ...

Angela Dorothea Merkel became Chancellor in 2005, after serving as leader of the opposition from 2002 to 2005. She was chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union between 2000 and 2018 ...

By Katrin Bennhold Preliminary official results showed the Social Democrats ahead in Germany’s election, with no party winning a decisive majority and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian ...

Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts on her face mask as she leaves a press conference in 2021. Merkel denied on March 13, 2025 that she had covered up an intelligence report concluding that ...

Although the return of the CDU to the German chancellery might seem to indicate a return to the Centrist times of moderates like Merkel, make no mistake, it is a hard jerk to Germany’s Right ...

TASS/. The Minsk accords were signed in order to "give Ukraine time" to make the country stronger, ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel (in office from 2005 to 2021) said in an interview with the ...

AFP Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied Thursday that she had ... who took office in December 2021. The authorities were reportedly keen to avoid sowing panic amongst the population ...

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 ...