Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to the media at the Federal Press Conference during her traditional summer press conference on current domestic and foreign policy issues in Berlin, Germany, Friday ...

A modest chancellor may seek a modest retirement. On losing office in 2018, Mariano Rajoy, an ally of Mrs Merkel during his seven years as prime minister of Spain, simply returned to the job as ...

It’s a lesson many politicians – mostly male – have learned the hard way over the past 15 years: Never underestimate Angela Merkel.

In the TV series, Merkel’s husband asks why she’s still wearing her trademark pantsuits in retirement. Her answer could be considered classic Merkel logic: “I’ve still got 50 of them in my ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending plans to allow some Germans to retire on full pensions at 63 and insisting they won't stop her advocating painful reforms in other countries.

Now, in retirement, a fictitious version of her is an open book, or whole series of books, called "Miss Merkel Investigates" - also adapted for TV and currently proving a hit with viewers in Italy ...

A German series on MHz Choice depicts Angela Merkel spending her retirement from politics as a small-town sleuth. The Wall Street Journal ‘Miss Merkel’ Review: The Chancellor on the Case.

Merkel declined to take an honorary party position after her retirement, as is often customary, and rarely appears at party events. It also contributed to an image of stubbornness that has defined ...

German author David Safier created Miss Merkel, which imagines the former Chancellor enjoying her retirement by solving mysteries, accompanied by her loyal (and occasionally flatulent) dog, Helmut.

A popular book and TV series in Europe imagines the straight-laced former German chancellor Angela Merkel solving crimes in her retirement. We unpack the premise's popularity. And an American has ...