The German chancellor played for high stakes and won.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, the fire brigade is being led by Germany, and its chief is Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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

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.

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 has just visited Beijing, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy likely to follow soon.

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

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

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

German Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted all proposals to provide relief to Spain and Italy from the excessive risk premiums that both countries are now confronting.

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

The German chancellor replied that she was losing her patience with Iranian leaders after four years of negotiations in which no progress was made.

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

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives speeches at security conferences that find favor in America, but otherwise Germany prefers to stay in the background.

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

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

Germany s positive energy is, of course, the result of success translated into confidence, which Chancellor Angela Merkel incarnates with strength and simplicity.

Germany s Constitutional Court has approved the country s participation in the ESM, and Chancellor Angela Merkel has given her blessing to the ECB s bond buying plan, despite strong public objections from the Bundesbank.

Had there been no crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other national leaders in the EU would never have been prepared to take these steps.

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

The current political turmoil in Europe shows that, regardless of how sensible Chancellor Angela Merkel s austerity prescriptions for debt ridden peripheral Europe might be in the abstract, they resemble a German Diktat.

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

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that there should be no joint EU guarantee each country would have to take care of its own institutions.

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

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

Within weeks, Chancellor Angela Merkel s government proposed legislation that put religious circumcision on a solid legal basis, with the support of most members of the Bundestag.

So how should a refounding (Neubegründung) of Europe as called for by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her first parliamentary statement on European policy be accomplished?

The Swabian Housewife. One should simply have asked the Swabian housewife, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

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

The school counselor, she just laughed.

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

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

It sometimes seems that the only eurozone leader who is willing to face the likely prospect of future debt restructuring is German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Inspired by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, approval of the pact was a precondition for Germany s participation in the financial rescue plan for Greece and the other distressed eurozone countries.

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

Minister Counsellor Alexandra Papadopoulou (Greece)