Angela Merkel visits Marlow Bird Park in northern Germany as she prepares to step aside after 16 years in power
Merkel at the national political convention of the Christian Democratic Union in December 1991
Celebrating with flowers after being elected leader of the Christian Democratic Union party in April 2000
With a traditional Bavarian beer mug, a gift, the day after her election as CDU leader. The saying reads: “There is no life outside Bavaria and if there is any life it is not this one”
Merkel is sworn in as Germany’s new chancellor on November 22, 2005, aged 51. She is the first woman, the first former East German and the youngest person to hold the office
Merkel with President Putin — and his dog Koni — after a working meeting in Sochi, January 2007
At the Élysée Palace in Paris with the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, right, and the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi during talks amid the financial crisis in 2008
Merkel with the Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg in April 2008 at the inauguration of Oslo’s new opera house
Merkel meeting Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street in 2008 when he was prime minister
A bit of light relief with Silvio Berlusconi in July 2009 in Italy as G8 leaders pose for a group photo
With the band Firecats at CDU headquarters in Berlin during the evening of parliamentary elections on September 27, 2009
With Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk during penguin feeding at the Oceaneum in Stralsund in May 2012
Receiving a giant boxing glove from the coach Hans-Ullrich Wegner, left, signed by Arthur Abraham, in her constituency of Grimmen, eastern Germany, in 2013
Celebrating a goal by Germany against Portugal at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, is on her right
Merkel and the German president Joachim Gauck, on her right, with the German team after their victory against Argentina in the 2014 World Cup
Posing for a selfie with Anas Modamani, a Syrian refugee, outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Spandau, Berlin, in 2015
Merkel tries out virtual reality goggles, watched by President Obama, at an industrial technology trade fair in Hanover in 2016
SOURCE: www.thetimes.co.uk
