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Angela Merkel
Read the latest news, analysis, and features on former German chancellor and CDU politician Angela Merkel, who led Germany from 2005 to 2021
Berlin and Warsaw try yet another reboot as German-Polish relations hit new low
Attitudes sour over history of occupation and contemporary security pressures overshadow latest rapprochement
Europe ‘a little bit removed’ from US and will be more realistic in future decisions, says Kenny
Former taoiseach given inaugural Trinity European Laureate Award in recognition of Irish EU presidency in 2013
Germany’s bunker boom: war fears spark demand for €150,000 ‘protective rooms’
A standard model protects against most drones and grenades - while luxury versions have air filters in case of atomic, biological or chemical attacks
Diarmaid Ferriter on Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar: Jaunty but superficial and lazy at times
Former taoiseach provides gossip and entertaining titbits but displays detachment about matters of substance
‘What will become of us?’: Germany struggles with military recruitment as voluntary service falls short
A new national service bill offers better pay, discounted driving lessons, language lessons and other sweeteners
Angela Merkel’s legacy under scrutiny in a Germany gripped by distrust and a rising far-right
Former chancellor’s immigration policy linked by some to present-day unrest
For the Bundestag speaker, high office is no bar to her lust for life or love
Julia Klöckner has been pursued across Germany by gossip columnists this summer, but is there another agenda afoot?
Deportation flights signal Germany’s pivot to hardline stance on migration
Radical policy shift a response to series of fatal attacks and to rise of far-right AfD
EU cannot ignore what’s happening in Poland and The Netherlands
Fundamental change is not merely possible or probable; it is becoming an existential necessity
Joe O’Byrne: ‘We’re having the reactivation of the type of politics that we saw in the early 1930s’
His debut novel, The Red Orchestra in Blue, about two real-life heroes of Nazi Germany, contains warnings about ‘the perils of where we’re heading’
Trump’s slapdown diplomacy reduces Oval Office meetings to spectator sport
Events are undermining America’s influence in the world, warn foreign policy experts
Nord Stream saga shows German leaders’ magical thinking and economical approach to the truth
German media investigation raises questions about Angela Merkel’s role in Nord Stream 2 project
Why has the German economy gone from Europe’s engine to its anchor?
Miscalculations on security, exports and energy have created a storm in Europe’s largest economy
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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