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Angela Merkel

May 2024

  • Angela Merkel standing with her hands held together in a signature pose

    Angela Merkel memoirs to be published in November

    Freedom: Memories 1954-2021 will cover Merkel’s childhood, political rise and 16 years as German chancellor

March 2024

  • Katja Hoyer

    What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west

    Katja Hoyer
    The far-right AfD is leading the polls in former GDR regions – and longstanding bias in German media and politics is partly to blame, says German-British historian Katja Hoyer

February 2024

  • Rachel Reeves in a suit and wearing a thin necklace next to Keir Starmer, with glasses and in a suit with no tie, next to equipment at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry

    Are older, richer voters really against big spending? Maybe not as much as Labour fears

    Starmer desperately wants to win back the trust of a crucial, and famously cautious, demographic. But support for public investment is growing, writes economics editor Philip Inman

December 2023

  • Veteran German politician Wolfgang Schaeuble dies at 81<br>epa11045410 (FILE) - Wolfgang Schaeuble, Federal Minister of Finance of Germany speaks during a panel session at the 41st Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, 29 January 2011 (reissued 27 December 2023). Former Bundestag President and CDU leader Wolfgang Schaeuble has died at the age of 81 on 26 December 2023, the German Christian Democrats (CDU) party said on 27 December. EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT

    Wolfgang Schäuble obituary

    The longest-serving parliamentarian in German history, who played a pivotal role in reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall

October 2023

  • Composite: Guardian Design/EPA/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail? – podcast

    A year ago, Germany’s vice-chancellor was one of the country’s best-liked public figures. Then came the tabloid-driven backlash. Now he has to win the argument all over again

September 2023

  • germany green long read

    The long read
    The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail?

    The long read: A year ago, Germany’s vice-chancellor was one of the country’s best-liked public figures. Then came the tabloid-driven backlash. Now he has to win the argument all over again

August 2023

  • Nicolas Sarkozy seated next to Vladimir Putin

    ‘Shameful’ Nicolas Sarkozy under fire for defending Putin

    Former French president criticises EU and US support for Ukraine in his latest memoirs

April 2023

  • Angela Merkel receives the Großkreuz from Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday

    Angela Merkel awarded Germany’s top order of merit despite criticism of legacy

  • Mathias Döpfner

    ‘I’m all for climate change’: Axel Springer CEO faces heat over leaked messages

February 2023

  • Anatol Lieven

    For years, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022?

    Anatol Lieven
    This war is Russia’s fault. But European nations rebuffing Russia during the noughties did not help, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

November 2022

  • Angela Merkel with Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin in December 2019.

    Angela Merkel says she lost influence over Putin as a lame duck leader

  • Theresa May and Leo Varadkar in front of No 10.

    Ireland’s Call: Navigating Brexit by Stephen Collins review – how Dublin got Brussels on side

August 2022

  • Sanna Marin

    Dancing in the limelight: when world leaders take to the dancefloor

    Sanna Marin follows in a long line of politicians filmed dancing, some more enthusiastically than others

June 2022

  • Angela Merkel at the Berliner Ensemble theatre on Tuesday night.

    No regrets over handling of Vladimir Putin, says Angela Merkel

  • An oil refinery in Leuna, Germany in 2007.

    The long read
    ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

May 2022

  • Alternative for Germany (AfD) party press conference<br>epa09545568 Alternative for Germany party (AfD) deputy chairwoman Alice Weidel speaks during the AFD party press conference in Berlin, Germany, 25 October 2021. EPA/FILIP SINGER

    Chat group leak reveals far-right fantasies of Germany’s AfD

    Among tens of thousands of posts is talk of jailing Angela Merkel, calls for armed resistance, and homophobia

April 2022

  • FRANCE2022-POLITICS-ELECTION-RN<br>French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) presidential candidate Marine Le Pen arrives to deliver a speech at a gathering with supporters as part of a campaign visit in Avignon on April 14, 2022. (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Observer view on the French presidential election

  • Simon Tisdall

    Germany must shake off its torpor and play its full role against Putin

    Simon Tisdall

March 2022

  • President Vladimir Putin presents flowers to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during their meeting at the Kremlin on 20 August 2021.

    Germany agonises over Merkel’s legacy: did she hand too much power to Putin?

    The war in Ukraine has prompted criticism of former chancellor’s decisions on Nord Stream pipeline and Russia

December 2021

  • Simon Tisdall

    Nothing like a dame: Trump tops 2021’s cast of clowns and baddies

    Simon Tisdall
    This year’s political pantomime served up a rich cast of characters, with The Donald providing the laughs and (guess who?) Xi Jinping as the baddest baddie of them all (Oh yes he is!)
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