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Her Magazine June July 2013

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Angela Merkel According to Forbes Angela Merkel is the world's most powerful woman and is the backbone of the 27-member European Union and carries the fate of the euro on her shoulders. Angela has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005, and the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000. She is the first woman to hold either office. Merkel's 'no excuses' approach for easing the European debt crisis has been challenged by both hard-hit southern countries and the more affluent north. Merkel has earned the top spot on the Forbes list of Most Powerful Women in the World for seven of the past 10 years. Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Kasner was born in Hamburg, West Germany, on July 17, 1954. She studied physics at the University of Leipzig, earning a doctorate in 1978, and later worked as a chemist at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences (1978–1990). Merkel entered politics after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall when she joined the Christian Democratic 6 | W H O ' S W H O 2 0 13 Union (CDU) political party and soon after was appointed to Helmut Kohl's cabinet as minister for women and youth. Following his defeat in the 1998 general election, she was named Secretary-General of the CDU. She was chosen party leader in 2000 and ran unsuccessfully for chancellor in 2002. In the 2005 election she narrowly defeated Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, winning by just three seats, and after the CDU agreed a coalition deal with the Social Democrats (SPD), she was declared Germany's first female chancellor. Merkel is also the first former citizen of the German Democratic Republic to lead the reunited Germany and the first woman to lead Germany since it became a modern nation-state in 1871. Source: www.biography.com

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