Germany's former longtime leader, Angela Merkel, received a long round of applause on Friday as she attended her first ...

Jana Schimke, a former CDU member of the Bundestag from Brandenburg and now head of Germany’s hotel and restaurant association, belongs to the party’s conservative wing, which long bristled at ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel could be a candidate for Federal President in 2027, German media report.

Former chancellor Angela Merkel will not run for the German presidency, a spokeswoman told dpa on Thursday. The spokeswoman ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her crumbling legacy. The effort is backfiring. Her new book, “Freedom”—published in late November in nearly 30 languages—is riling up even some of her ...

We met former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a fitting place for her: the museum in Berlin dedicated to the Wall, that great symbol of the Cold War division between East and West. Parts of the ...

The office of former Chancellor Angela Merkel has dismissed reports that she could be in the running to become Germany's next president. Political parties are weighing who might replace President ...

Last Wednesday, at about noon local time in Germany, the question of who the most powerful woman in the world is became harder to answer. Until then, the easy response was Angela Merkel, the ...