Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel

Last chance at legacy. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe via Bloomberg

This is Angela Merkel’s swan song as leader

For the next six months, Germany will try to do something counterintuitive: lead Europe “from the center.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

Merkel open to bigger EU budget, bonds to finance post-crisis recovery

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

Trump can take notes on dealing the pandemic from Angela Merkel

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Applause to women leadership for best coronavirus response

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

Merkel's initial coronavirus test came back negative: spokesman

File Photo: German Chancellor Angela Merkel February 10, 2020/Reuters

Merkel in quarantine after contact with infected doctor

US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Nov. 11, 2018. Benoit Tessier/AFP via Getty Images via Foreign Policy

The coronavirus pandemic tells a tale of three leaders

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech as she attends a celebration event of the CDU Parliamentary Group in the State Parliament Thuringia for the Day of German Unity in the state parliament building in Erfurt, Germany, September 27, 2019/ Reuters

Up to 70% German population may get infected with coronavirus: Merkel

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a news conference after the second day of the European Union leaders summit, held to discuss the EU's long-term budget for 2021-2027, in Brussels, Belgium, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

Hammered in Hamburg, Merkel's party meets on leadership crisis

File Photo: German Chancellor Angela Merkel February 10, 2020/Reuters

Germany may face early Merkel exit, election after protegee stands aside

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 11, 2020. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS

Merkel regrets her protegee's decision not to run for chancellor - source

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

Merkel: Conservatives siding with far right in election bad for democracy

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the G7 summit/ Reuters

Merkel, Macron, Johnson urge Iran not to flout nuclear deal