Merkel

/ ˈmɜːkəl /

noun

1. MerkelAngela1954FGermanPOLITICS: chancellor Angela. born 1954, German politician; chair of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000; chancellor of Germany from 2005 (the first woman to hold the office)

Example Sentences

One of the mistakes I think that people like Angela Merkel and others made was to regard him as thinking in the same way that they did.

From Salon

This is a very different country to the Germany of Angela Merkel.

From BBC

Trump knows, for example, that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel dealt with him with their noses pinched between their fingers.

From Salon

The CDU - the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel - has proposed turning all asylum seekers back at the border, even those who are eligible, on the basis they have travelled through other safe EU countries.

From BBC

As president, Trump heaped scorn on faithful U.S. allies, like Germany’s Angela Merkel, and embraced autocrats, like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Honduras’ Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is now serving a 45-year sentence in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.

From Los Angeles Times