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Angela Merkel Is Retired. But She’s Still on the Ballot.
But it was a lone voice of dissent that rocked the country’s political scene: Angela Merkel ... for much of this century. Ms. Merkel won the early rounds, served 16 years as chancellor, and ...
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Angela Merkel’s blunt memoir Freedom reveals how she handled Trump and Putin
Angela Merkel has a strong claim to be the most significant ... it from any other mainstream politician’s memoir. Early biographical sketches are followed by the slow formation of influences ...
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Merkel criticises her party leader after far-right vote
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made a highly unusual intervention ... He was famously side-lined by Merkel in the early 2000s after she won out in a CDU power struggle. Merz would go on to ...
Meet the man poised to be Germany’s next chancellor
Friedrich Merz, the man favored by early exit polls to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections Sunday, was forced out of government years ago in a power struggle with Angela Merkel. The leader of ...
Who is Friedrich Merz - the trained pilot and Angela Merkel's long-time rival on track to become German chancellor?
Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.
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Who is Friedrich Merz - the trained pilot and Angela Merkel's long-time rival on track to become German chancellor?
It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed to take charge of his party twice. He left politics altogether for two decades ...