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ANGELA DOROTHEA MERKEL
She is a German politician serving as the
chancellor of Germany since 2005. She served as the leader of
the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018. Merkel
has been widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union, the most powerful woman in the world, and by some commentators as the
"leader of the free world".
Merkel
was born in Hamburg in
then-West
Germany and moved to East
Germany as an infant when her
father, a Lutheran clergyman,
received a pastorate in Perleberg.
She obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in
1986 and worked as a research
scientist until 1989. Merkel entered
politics in the wake of the Revolutions
of 1989, and briefly served as a
deputy spokesperson for the first democratically elected East German Government headed by Lothar
de Maizière in 1990.
Following German
reunification in 1990, Merkel was
elected to the Bundestag for
the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
and
has been reelected ever since. As the protégée of Chancellor Helmut Kohl,
Merkel was appointed as the Federal Minister for Women and Youth in
Kohl's government in
1991, and became the Federal Minister for the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994. After
her party lost the federal election in 1998, Merkel was
elected Secretary-General of
the CDU before becoming the party's first female leader two years later in the
aftermath of a donations
scandal that toppled Wolfgang
Schäuble.
Following
the 2005 federal election, Merkel was appointed Germany's first
female chancellor at the head of a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, its
Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party of
Germany (SPD).
In the 2009 federal election the CDU obtained the largest share
of the vote, and Merkel was able to form a coalition government with the Free Democratic Party (FDP).[14] At the 2013 federal election,
Merkel's CDU won a landslide victory with 41.5% of the vote and formed a second
grand coalition with the SPD, after the FDP lost all of its representation in
the Bundestag.[15] After the 2017 federal election the
CDU was again the largest party; she was reelected to her fourth term on 14
March 2018.[16]
In 2007,
Merkel was President of the European
Council and played a central role in the negotiation of
the Treaty of Lisbon and
the Berlin Declaration. One of
Merkel's consistent priorities has been to strengthen transatlantic economic
relations. Merkel played a crucial role in managing the financial crisis at
the European and international level, and she has been referred to as "the
decider". In domestic policy, health care reform,
problems concerning future energy development and
more recently her government's approach to the ongoing migrant crisis have
been major issues during her chancellorship.[17] She has served as senior G7 leader since
2014, and previously from 2011 to 2012. In 2014 she became the longest-serving
incumbent head of government in
the European Union. In October
2018, Merkel announced that she would not seek reelection as leader of the CDU
at the party convention in December 2018 and as chancellor in 2021.
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