Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel (help·info) (IPA: ['a?gela doro'te?a 'm??k?l]) (born in Hamburg, Germany, on July 17, 1954, as Angela Dorothea Kasner), is the Chancellor of Germany. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union CDU since April 9, 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005. She leads a Grand coalition with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after the 2005 federal election on November 22, 2005. Vital topics of her term in office so far are the Health care reform and the problems concerning the Future energy development.