Angela Dorothea Merkel became Chancellor in 2005, after serving as leader of the opposition from 2002 to 2005. She was chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union between 2000 and 2018.

Merkel's office said Monday that the former German leader received a call on January 12 from someone claiming to be Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s ex-President.

Inside the months of quiet, grinding preparation that went into the British prime minister’s all-smiles first trip to the Trump White House — and why it could all still unravel.

As Angela Merkel identified way back in 2013 when Britain was still a member of the EU, the problem was European wide. Europe simply wasn’t generating enough wealth to pay for its bloated welfare ...

Angela Merkel visited the Austrian capital on Monday evening. The former chancellor promoted her memoirs in Vienna and defended her Ukraine and refugee policies without self-criticism. She ...

Since her autobiography “Freedom. Memoirs 1954 – 2021” appeared on the world stage in late November last year, many reviews in the Western media were negative, and quite critical of Angela Merkel’s ...

Mr Merz is Chairman of the CDU - Germany's center-right party. It was headed for 18 years, from 2000 until 2018, by Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz's stance on migration In January, Ms Merkel ...

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the Chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

Adjunct Professor at the Cleveland Institute teaching writing.

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Angela King is the local host of Morning Edition. She’s been a part of the northwest news scene since the early 1990s. A proud University of Washington alumna, with degrees in Broadcast ...

It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed to take charge of his party twice. He left politics altogether for two decades ...