BERLIN (Reuters) - A Ghanaian refugee who has been granted asylum in Germany named her newborn daughter after Chancellor Angela Merkel in gratitude for being allowed to stay in the country. Ophelya ...

There are few world leaders who can claim to have worked closely with four U.S. presidents. But Chancellor Angela Merkel can. She is the only woman to ever lead Germany, and her 16-year tenure as ...

Germany’s first female chancellor served for 16 years from 2005 to 2021 Matt Webber is an experienced personal finance writer, researcher, and editor. He has published widely on personal finance, ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir, “Freedom,” already translated into 30 languages, could not be timed more perfectly. The current German government, under Chancellor Olaf Scholz — whose ...

Two women have thoroughly dominated the politics of their respective northern European countries in living memory. Beyond their gender, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher are often lumped together as ...

Once upon a time Germany’s Angela Merkel was feted as “the chancellor of the free world.” Now a growing chorus of critics at home and abroad is chastising the former leader for everything from a ...

An important figure in the reunification of East and West Germany, he played a key role in shaping German politics for decades and was once seen as a likely chancellor. By Alan Cowell This week the ...