Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.

Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be 'almost comfortable in a certain way', Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the former East ...

Angela Merkel has a strong claim to be the most significant ... being booted into touch by the electorate. Post-chancellorship life has not been so smooth. Merkel tells us that “for a long ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry ... has been underestimated her entire life, starting with her upbringing in East Germany. She went on to earn ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the first and last ... "Mikhail Gorbachev also fundamentally changed my life. I will never forget that," said the former chancellor, who grew ...

Merkel’s political career was shaped by these early years, by her ingrained belief in freedom, the word she chose as a title ...

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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