Angela Merkel has earned her place in history — for better and for worse

12 December 2021 - 00:00
By Chris Reiter, Arne Delfs and Patrick Donahue

Few thought that the young woman from East Germany who Helmut Kohl dismissively called his 'girl' in the 1990s would go far. And yet after 16 years and 16 days Angela Merkel exits the stage just shy of his record as the country’s longest-serving chancellor since World War 2

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