Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel received her nation's highest honor Monday – becoming only the third leader to claim the award. Merkel received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from ...

Berlin — the world was still weeks, possibly even months away from confirmation of who the new German Chancellor will be on Monday, as the focus shifted toward forming a coalition government a day ...

The former German chancellor also said she wouldn’t be the right person to lead European talks with the Kremlin as she holds ...

Olaf Scholz was sworn in as German chancellor on Wednesday. This ends Angela Merkel's 16-year run as leader of the country. Merkel became known as the world's most powerful woman and the de facto ...

Berlin — German Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped down on Wednesday after 16 years in power, and Olaf Scholz took the helm as the next leader of Europe's biggest economy. President Frank-Walter ...

Germany’s former chancellor returns to the public stage amid the internal crisis in the Merz government and tensions with the ...

BERLIN - Angela Merkel was assured of a place in the history books as soon as she became Germany's first female chancellor on Nov. 22, 2005. Over the next 16 years, she was credited with raising ...

Nearly five years after leaving office, the former German chancellor may be drawn back into diplomacy – despite questions ...

A Feb. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows several images of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler. "The Fourth Reich began on November 22, 2005, when Angela Merkel ...

Other Facts: Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl sometimes referred to her as "the girl." She is a trained physicist. Timeline: 1978-1990 - Research associate at Zentralinstitut fur Physikalische Chemie in ...