Europe’s most powerful leader is a refugee from a time and place where her power would have been unimaginable. The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic ...

Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

Angela Merkel’s black ... eight years ever spent that much time alone with anybody other than his wife,” a senior Obama administration official told me. Merkel was emerging from one of the ...