Angela Merkel

FORMER German Chancellor Angela Merkel describes her dealings with world leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump during her 16 years in power in her new memoir, which comes as h...

Walkouts have caused big havoc with flights cancelled and train services stopped

FORMER chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday (Oct 13) she did not regret taking on Russia as a major gas supplier for Germany during her 16 years in office. Germany’s reliance on Russian energy has n...

FORMER German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday (Oct 4) won the United Nations refugee agency’s (UNHCR) prestigious Nansen Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers whi...

FORMER German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday defended her policy of detente towards Moscow while in office, saying she had “nothing to apologise for” even as the Ukraine war casts a pall on her l...

[BERLIN] Up to the final hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, former chancellor Angela Merkel had been touted as the person favoured by Germans to try to talk President Vladimir Putin ou...

[BERLIN] With the same stoicism that had marked Angela Merkel's 16 years in office, the outgoing German chancellor left power behind on Wednesday, looking straight ahead as the Audi car she was in dro...

[FRANKFURT] Olaf Scholz reached a milestone in his bid to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor by getting his potential partners close enough to enter formal negotiations for a coalition governm...

ALMOST every article written about Angela Merkel's tenure as Germany's chancellor notes that one of her greatest political strengths has been that she is so often underestimated. In this, she is not u...