Angela Merkel

If the continent's leaders can't make tough choices themselves, they should let their citizens make those decisions for them.

QUESTION: Did your sources tell you that Putin would reject the complete cease-fire? You seem always to be spot on.

The strategies that once guided advocacy are no longer adequate in a world led by strongmen.

Berlin is rapidly reconsidering its nuclear weapons posture.

Germans will head to the polls Sunday looking for leadership at a deeply uncertain time, but all eyes will be trained on a party likely to finish a distant second.

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday's election, sees an "epochal rupture" with a United States that is more aligned with Russia.

The United States will no longer tend to Ukraine as if it were a helpless victim in the war. The media would like you to believe that Russia invaded Ukraine

The outgoing chairman of the Munich Security Conference delivered an emotional speech that ended in tears after taking a swipe at Vice President JD Vance's blistering speech.

A journalist, historian, and author called an eye-popping new report "shocking" that the CIA offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday in hopes of ushering in "renewed energy" under new Director John Ratcliffe.The agency appears to be the first intelligence agency to tell workers they can take...

CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz broke a postwar political taboo by working with the far-right party.

Much of the world still sees Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a force for progress. But Canadians had anticipated his resignation for quite some time.

Amid much pessimism there are also several things that may well lift the mood

He still wants Greenland, and the Panama Canal. Maybe Canada too, lol? Thing is, there's actual history here

Leading FFF teams include Donald Trump's Mad Angry Geezers Athletic (Maga) and Vladimir Putin's Greater Russia United (GRU)

Re '24: Let's not forget / We're all in brave Navalny's debt. / He showed a soul can still be free / Whatever its surroundings be.

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In this web exclusive, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, author of "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021," talks with correspondent Mark Phillips about her childhood in East Germany, where she received care packages from family members in West Germany that, she said, "smelled like the West"; being warned about surveillance by the secret police, and avoiding political indoctrination; and her emotions when the Berlin…

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she had to consider whether she is a "feminist." She joined NPR's Mary Louise Kelly to discuss her new memoir, Freedom.

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has sacked his finance minister Christian Lindner escalating a long conflict in the German government and ultimately causing the fragile coalition between Social Democrats, Greens, and the Free Democratic Party to collapse. For once, Scholz, often mocked as a robo...