Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
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She held power longer than anyone in Europe except Helmut Kohl, steering Germany through financial collapse, a refugee surge, and the dissolving of Cold War certainties — a quantum chemist from the East who became the continent's default crisis manager.
Born in Hamburg in 1954, Merkel was raised in East Germany after her family moved when she was an infant. She earned a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until the Revolutions of 1989 pulled her into politics, briefly serving as deputy spokeswoman for East Germany's first democratically elected government. After reunification in 1990, she entered the Bundestag under the wing of Helmut Kohl, rising through ministerial posts before becoming the CDU's first female leader in 2000. Elected chancellor in 2005, she led Germany through four terms and three grand…
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Climate change is an issue determining our destiny as mankind – it will determine the well-being of all of us.
German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.
I understand why he has to do this; to prove he's a man... He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.
This is a good day for the world's children.
We Are All in the Same Boat.
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