Former Chancellor Angela Merkel has retired her trademark. "I don't really do it anymore", she said on Thursday evening in Berlin about her famous Merkel Diamond.

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Angela Merkel felt Brexit was a 'humiliation' and a 'disgrace' to the European project, according to candid reflections in her new memoir. The former German chancellor revealed Britain's decision to ...

• German Chancellor Angela Merkel just won another term in office. • Before she entered the political realm, she had a successful career as a scientist. • At one point, the Stasi — East Germany's ...

BERLIN — “We can do it” was Angela Merkel’s defiant response to the migration crisis engulfing Europe. A year later, those words still resonate — but not in the way she intended. The German chancellor ...

Angela Merkel receives her guests in the same place she wrote her book: in an apartment in a prewar building in the Mitte district of Berlin. Framed photos hang on the walls, taken by one of her ...

Today, the importance of Angela Merkel—Germany’s first female chancellor and its first born in East Germany—isn’t exactly in question. She has the most influential voice in European politics, she has ...

BERLIN — The world's most powerful woman has been such a constant presence in German politics that a verb has been derived from her name. While "merkeln" means to delay a decision or deliberate, ...

ANGELA MERKEL DOES not often muse publicly about the European project. A physicist by training, she prefers solving concrete problems to holding forth about abstract ideas. A sunny morning in late ...

Queen of Europe was once one of Angela Merkel's many nicknames. But now Germany's powerful chancellor is poised to turn her back on politics following this month's elections, I'm not sure that royal ...

Angela Merkel has been written off many times in her career – by the politician’s rivals, her own party members and, yes, the press. It’s difficult to imagine today, as Germany’s widely respected ...