Former Chancellor Angela Merkel has retired her trademark. "I don't really do it anymore", she said on Thursday evening in Berlin about her famous Merkel Diamond.

Mr. Merz led his party to victory in February’s elections by promising to curb migration, to revitalize the economy and to reinvigorate the military. He has since been a disrupter of German taboos — ...

Angela Merkel made a surprise appearance among the guests at the banquet honoring the Nobel Prize winners in Stockholm. The former chancellor found herself in an illustrious circle.