BERLIN — The personal relationship between Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Vladimir Putin of Russia is often boiled down to certain anecdotes: her put-downs about his role in the KGB ...
Baltic and Polish leaders slammed the former German chancellor for saying they had opposed talks with Russia before the ...
Germany's former chancellor clarifies that her statements were misinterpreted and admits that "everyone failed" to prevent the Russian invasion ...
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Putin Has No Way to Leave the Ukraine War a Winner

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is rejecting any great-power deal on Ukraine that sidelines Kyiv or Europe, warning that ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel by phone on Wednesday about the deal reached between Turkey and Russia on the rebel-held Syrian region of ...
The White House and Germany are at odds, and that may be just the way Vladimir Putin likes it. German chancellor Angela Merkel is in Washington today, where she met with President Obama to discuss the ...
“Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?” The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and refers to the historical inability of the political entity of ...
PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The leaders of France, Germany and Russia backed a new ceasefire in eastern Ukraine in a three-way phone call on Saturday, but offered contrasting views of why February's ...
Raised in Soviet-ruled East Germany, Merkel has said she never felt like the GDR was her home country. She got involved in politics in her 30s, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. By that ...
Angela Merkel has denied ever blaming Poland or the Baltic states for Russia’s war on Ukraine, calling the claim “fake news.” ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ...