German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and US President Donald Trump communicate throughout a bilateral assembly on the G7 Summit in 2019. Trump is one in all 4 U.S. Presidents Merkel labored with throughout her time as Germany’s Chancellor.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and US President Donald Trump communicate throughout a bilateral assembly on the G7 Summit in 2019. Trump is one in all 4 U.S. Presidents Merkel labored with throughout her time as Germany’s Chancellor.
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP through Getty Photos
In her new memoir, Angela Merkel writes concerning the many dilemmas she needed to navigate as Chancellor of Germany. Dilemmas her male colleagues by no means needed to sweat. Like, are you able to put on a pantsuit as an alternative of a skirt within the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament? She determined the reply was, sure.
Merkel is the one girl ever to rise to probably the most highly effective political put up in Germany. She served as chancellor from 2005 to 2021.
Angela Merkel has gone toe-to-toe with world leaders like Vladimir Putin, led Germany via occasions of turmoil and turn out to be a task mannequin for different ladies aspiring to positions of management. However her legacy is complicated.
She will get into all of this in her new memoir, “Freedom.”
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