Helmut Kohl in EL PAÍS English

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, pictured on November 7 in Berlin, at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, where the interview took place.

She was Germany’s chancellor for 16 years. After leaving office in 2021, she disappeared. Now she is back with her memoirs, in which she reflects on her time in power and her life in the GDR. And she defends her legacy. EL PAÍS interviewed her in Berlin where she sends a message: ‘Freedom cannot be taken for granted’

Wolfgang Schäuble and Angela Merkel in Berlin in 2019.

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