Christian Democratic Union likely to finish first and ask centre-left Social Democratic Party to form centrist alliance, ...

Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful Angela Merkel a few months ... the 720-page book covers what Merkel calls her “two lives, the first up to 1990 in a ...

Excerpts from Angela Merkel's soon-to-be-published autobiography cover everything from growing up in a dictatorship to the conflict in Ukraine. A look at the key quotes. Angela Merkel was the ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

The cover of right wing newspaper Libero offers up a nice drawing of Angela Merkel with a gigantic posterior, and Mario Monti crawling out from under it. Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider The ...

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 ...

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 ...