Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful Angela Merkel a few months after ... moved the young family to East Germany to take up a position as a Lutheran pastor.

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language ... by the plight of a Lebanese girl who tearfully asked when her family’s asylum claim would be accepted. “We can do it,” Merkel ...

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 ...

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.