Angela Merkel is stepping down after 16 years as Germany's chancellor. Earlier this fall, NPR caught up with some people who remembered her earliest days as a politician and reflected on her legacy.

Netanyahu wanted Merkel's advisor to be fired due to his demands to halt the construction of settlements in the West Bank.

When German votes head to the polls on Sunday, an extremely familiar name will be absent from the ballot. After serving 16 years as German chancellor, Angela Merkel is not running for reelection.

Germany is set to tighten its people smuggling laws as Chancellor Friedrich Merz makes his first official visit to the UK ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful leader and a force for centrist stability in a turbulent time, said Monday she would relinquish control of her center-right party in ...

Germany is one of America's most important allies. Nearly every American president since George W. Bush has worked closely with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But for the first time since 2005 ...

Two-thirds of voters from Germany's center-left Social Democrats endorsed a new deal to form a coalition government with the center-right Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

BERLIN — Angela Merkel will leave office as one of modern Germany's longest-serving leaders and a global diplomatic heavyweight, with a legacy defined by her management of a succession of crises ...

Angela Merkel is only the third leader to receive the Grand Cross of Germany's Order of Merit By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News Published April 18, 2023 9:34am EDT ...

For a dozen years, Angela Merkel seemingly floated above the laws of political gravity, making her calm and consensual leadership style as much a part of the German landscape as fairy-tale castles ...