# angela-merkel - Friday 17 December, 2021
# Friedrich Merz
# Friedrich Merz
Merz will lead the opposition to the new government under Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, who succeeded Merkel last week.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 8 December, 2021
# New German Government
# New German Government
Merkel had served as chancellor for 16 years
# angela-merkel - Friday 3 December, 2021
# Germany
# Germany
Merkel was given a traditional military musical performance and march at the defence ministry.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 24 November, 2021
# Germany
# Germany
Olaf Scholz of the centre-left Social Democrats is set become Germany’s new chancellor
# angela-merkel - Monday 8 November, 2021
# Angela Merkel
# Angela Merkel
The German chancellor is preparing to step down
# angela-merkel - Sunday 10 October, 2021
# Farewell Tour
# Farewell Tour
The outgoing Chancellor is making her eight and final visit to Israel before retiring from politics.
# angela-merkel - Saturday 9 October, 2021
# Government Formation
# Government Formation
The centre-left Social Democrats, the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats have held talks following the election last month.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 6 October, 2021
# Goodbye Merkel
# Goodbye Merkel
Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel will remain in office until a new government is in place.
# angela-merkel - Monday 27 September, 2021
# Goodbye Merkel
Preliminary official results showed that the centre-left Social Democrats narrowly won the vote. Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrat bloc had its worst result since 1949. Would-be successor Armin Laschet claims right to try to build the next government .
# angela-merkel - Sunday 26 September, 2021
# Bundestagswahl 2021
# Bundestagswahl 2021
60.4 million people are set to vote today.
# angela-merkel - Saturday 25 September, 2021
# New Chancellor
# New Chancellor
Merkel has been at the helm of Germany since 2005.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 23 September, 2021
# Berlin
# Berlin
Climate change has emerged as a top voter concern among the 60.4 million people eligible to vote.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 22 July, 2021
# Vaccine Race
# Vaccine Race
“The more people are vaccinated, the freer we will be,” Angela Merkel said.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 20 July, 2021
# Floods
# Floods
At least 200 people have died in western Europe, with rescuers still searching for victims.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 18 July, 2021
# Floods
156 people have died in Germany. At least 27 people have also lost their lives in neighbouring Belgium. Historic downpours have also battered Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 6 June, 2021
# Germany
# Germany
The far-right anti-immigration AfD looks set to make gains on Merkel’s CDU party.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 21 April, 2021
# Bundestag
# Bundestag
Police said some 150 people were detained for throwing bottles, attacking officers and failing to comply with rules on wearing masks.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 11 April, 2021
# Berlin
# Berlin
Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed she won’t be running for re-election.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 24 March, 2021
# U-turn
# U-turn
‘The whole process has caused additional uncertainty, for which I ask all citizens to forgive me,’ Merkel said.
# angela-merkel - Monday 22 March, 2021
# Emergency Brake
# Emergency Brake
Infections have increased steadily as the more contagious variant first detected in Britain has become dominant.
# angela-merkel - Monday 15 March, 2021
# CDU-CSU
# CDU-CSU
The governing party’s mismanagement of the pandemic is being blamed for the poor showing.
# angela-merkel - Saturday 16 January, 2021
# Chancellor
# Chancellor
The vote kicks off the race for Germany’s top job – Chancellor ahead of Merkel stepping down in September.
# Goodbye Mutti
# Goodbye Mutti
Merkel has led her party for almost 20 years and her country since 2005.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 13 December, 2020
# Restrictions
# Restrictions
Germany recorded 20,200 newly confirmed cases and 321 additional deaths today.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 25 November, 2020
# Berlin
# Berlin
The car had the slogan ‘You damned murderers of children and old people’ painted on the other side.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 11 October, 2020
# Close Call
# Close Call
Johnson spoke to the French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 6 September, 2020
# Russia
# Russia
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned a lack of support for the investigation could force Germany to rethink the German-Russian gas pipeline project.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 3 September, 2020
# Novichok
# Novichok
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 21 July, 2020
# EU Recovery Fund
# EU Recovery Fund
Member states will have to produce national recovery plans to access the funds.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 9 July, 2020
# Frugal Four
# Frugal Four
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte leads a bloc of countries opposed to the deal.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 19 May, 2020
# European Union
# European Union
Experts say the scale of the crisis and a German constitutional court ruling might have something to do with it.
# angela-merkel - Monday 18 May, 2020
# Franco-german Push
# Franco-german Push
French President Emmanuel Macron said today that Europe’s action at the start of the crisis wasn’t sufficient.
# angela-merkel - Monday 20 April, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
There were encouraging signs in the battle against the virus across the continent over the weekend.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 24 March, 2020
# Concern
From The42
# Concern
Paderborn’s Luca Kilian, 20, was the first player diagnosed with Covid-19 in the German top-flight.
# angela-merkel - Monday 10 February, 2020
# Germany
# Germany
Germany’s next national elections must take place by autumn next year.
# angela-merkel - Saturday 9 November, 2019
# Cold War
# Cold War
Merkel herself grew up in East Germany and was a scientist working in Berlin on 9 November, 1989.
# angela-merkel - Monday 28 October, 2019
# Afd
# Afd
Bjoern Hoecke previously labelled Berlin’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame”.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 9 October, 2019
# Brexit
# Brexit
The tweet featured an image of Merkel and invoked Britain’s wartime victories.
# angela-merkel - Monday 26 August, 2019
# No-deal Brexit
# No-deal Brexit
Boris Johnson was speaking as the G7 conference draws to a close.
# G7
# G7
The three-day summit will conclude later today.
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