After 16 years of Angela Merkel followed by three and a half years ... There is, however, a sense of powerlessness among Germany’s youth, as older voters will have a far bigger share of the ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...

Merkel, who was born Angela Kasner on July 17 ... she was appointed minister for women and youth in 1991. She went on to win election as party general secretary in 1998, the first female leader ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...