The German Chancellor has been lucky.

A decade later, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer proposed a Franco German political union.

The German chancellor played for high stakes and won.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel would do well to ponder that history.

Still, German Chancellor Angela Merkel can be proud of what was achieved.

If Chirac goes down, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder loses face as well.

In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is portrayed as a tough deficit cutter.

Speaking before the Bundestag last October, German Chancellor Angela Merkel put the matter starkly

And the undertaker was not ECB President Mario Draghi it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

America s closest allies, such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are furious about being spied upon.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently urged that all parties involved focus more on practical steps.

More recently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel asserted that if the euro fails, Europe will fail.

Indeed, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will face a serious dilemma following her likely re election.

The late editor of the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Rudolf Augstein, who never liked former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, titled his commentary about German reunification Congratulations, Chancellor!

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has just visited Beijing, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy likely to follow soon.

The German Chancellor and his red green coalition still clings to power but is today severely weakened.

MUNICH German Chancellor Angela Merkel has withstood the pressure from southern Europe there will be no Eurobonds.

Certain of Schroeder s predecessors as German chancellor sought to attain the same objective by rather different means.

The German chancellor and her Minister of Finance must now quickly learn from their mistakes of recent weeks.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is known to criticize France for being less than enthusiastic about European political union.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sticks to her guns and says that Greece must abide by the existing conditions.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy don t want to gamble away their own political futures.

Most recently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed ECB President Mario Draghi, leaving Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann isolated.

Nor will she abandon special relations with Russia, to which every German chancellor since Adenauer has attached major importance.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn t make speeches attacking the strong euro and the European Central Bank s price stability mandate.

Moreover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the liberty of pondering whether imperiled states should be excluded from the eurozone.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has proclaimed that there will be a million electric cars on the Autobahn by 2020.

It is even more absurd today, with Angela Merkel someone who is without illusions about Russia as German Chancellor.

The last thing the ECB needs is a political crony of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder assuming Mr. Issing s key post.

It is true that Angela Merkel is the first postwar German chancellor not to have lived through World War II.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel s constituents hate bailouts, because they know that it is they who will be doing the bailing.

Of course, there are German economists (not to mention Chancellor Angela Merkel s government) who support ECB President Mario Draghi s policies.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt once quipped that politicians who have a vision should go and have their eyes checked.

So far, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been largely successful in insulating the German economy from the turmoil elsewhere in Europe.

Note that it was French President Sarkozy who went to China to protest the currency peg, not German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently echoed these fears in public and added worries over whether the euro will survive the crisis.

One sign of hope is that, following the recent Franco German summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time did not publicly oppose the idea of a European economic government.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel prevailed with her demand that the International Monetary Fund participate in a Greek bailout, should one be necessary.

He was quickly told off by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Greeks never voted on it.

A number of leaders, most prominently German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are understandably worried about the longer term consequences of aggressive macroeconomic stimulus.

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder even became chair of a Russian German consortium to build a new gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel likes to emphasize, rightly, that one should not speak of a euro crisis, but of a debt crisis.

Of course, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was right to point out that each country should be dealt with according to its situation.

BERLIN German chancellor Angela Merkel likes to navigate politically by line of sight and a very short line of sight at that.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke before the Knesset, the legislature of Israel, in 2008 about Germany s special historical responsibility for Israel's security .