Angela Merkel, 16 at the head of Germany in pictures
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By Jean-Michel Selva
PORTFOLIO – This Thursday, the German Chancellor meets Emmanuel Macron for his last visit to Paris in office. Angela Merkel will leave her post after the general elections scheduled for September 2021. A look back at her career after sixteen years in power.
On November 27, 2006, Angela Merkel was re-elected at the head of her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Dresden.
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On December 9, 1997, Angela Merkel, then German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, delivers a speech during the climate change debate in the Kyoto International Conference Hall in the western Japan.
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Angela Merkel at the Munich Oktoberfest with chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber on September 21, 2002.
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Pope John Paul II receives in private audience at the Vatican Angela Merkel, leader of the CDU, on May 27, 2003.
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Campaign poster of CDU chancellor candidate Angela Merkel on a Berlin street on August 11, 2005.
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On September 10, 2005, Angela Merkel signs autographs during the election campaign for the Chancellery in Ahrenshoop in northern Germany.
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Angela Merkel with her mother Herling Kasner during a campaign rally on September 11, 2005 in Templin.
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Election day in Germany on December 18, 2005 to designate the future chancellor. Here CDU candidate Angela Merkel votes in Berlin.
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Editing of the four oaths of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Bundestag in Berlin in November 2005, October 2009, December 2013 and March 2018.
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Angela Merkel in the middle of a discussion with US President George Bush under the gaze of Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 7, 2007 during the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
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On September 26, 2009, Angela Merkel, once again on the campaign trail at the Treptow Arena in Berlin.
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A big football fan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports the German national team, here during the Germany-Greece Euro match on June 22, 2012 in Gdansk, Poland.
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Angela Merkel with German soldiers visit her country’s army base in Kunduz, Afghanistan on May 10, 2013.
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Poster showing Angela Merkel behind a battery during a CDU campaign rally in Dresden on September 15, 2013.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses in front of her party bus on September 16, 2013 in Berlin.
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Angela Merkel, from East Germany, walks along a preserved section of the Berlin Wall during the Fall of the Wall ceremonies on November 9, 2014.
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Angela Merkel is received at the Elysee Palace in Paris by French President François Hollande for a ceremony in tribute to the victims of the Islamist attacks in France on January 11, 2015.
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On June 8, 2015, Angela Merkel in conversation with US President Barack Obama during the G7 summit at Elmau Castle near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in southern Germany.
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On July 1, 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at a session of the Bundestag in Berlin.
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Attitude of Angela Merkel at the CDU congress on December 6, 2016 in Essen.
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The face of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reflected in the window of her car as she arrives in Berlin on October 26, 2017.
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Angela Merkel at her party congress the CDU in Berlin on February 26, 2018.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel sits on the government bench at the Bundestag in Berlin on March 14, 2018.
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Angela Merkel faces US President Donald Trump on June 9, 2018 during the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Quebec.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on November 10, 2018 during the Armistice ceremony of November 1918 in the forest of Rethondes in Compiègne.
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Angela Merkel greets her supporters after the CDU congress in Hamburg on December 7, 2018.
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On June 3, 2020, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz leave the room after giving a press conference on June 3, 2020 at the Chancellery in Berlin.
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