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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...

Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) speaks at a press conference at the CDU headquarters. Michael Kappeler/dpa 33,571 people played the daily Crossword ...

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