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$FILE - Angela Merkel arrives for a television debate with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at a television studio in Berlin, Sept. 4, 2005. As chancellor, Merkel has been credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence, helping hold a fractious European Union together, managing a string of crises and being a role model for women in a near-record tenure that ends with her leaving office amid praise from abroad and enduring popularity at home. Her designated successor Olaf Scholz is expected to take office Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)$

End of an era: Germany’s Angela Merkel bows out after 16 years

Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats reacts after he was elected new German Chancellor in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. The election and swearing-in of the new Chancellor and the swearing-in of the federal ministers of the new federal government will take place in the Bundestag on Wednesday. (Photo/Stefanie Loos)

Olaf Scholz succeeds Angela Merkel as German chancellor, opening new era

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a press conference following a meeting with the heads of government of Germany's federal states at the Chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Merkel said Thursday that people who aren't vaccinated will be excluded from nonessential stores, cultural and recreational venues, and parliament will consider a general vaccine mandate, as part of an effort to curb coronavirus infections that again topped 70,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24-hour period. (John Macdougall/Pool Photo via AP)

Merkel set to leave as Germany’s Greens agree to join new government

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves goodbye at the Defence Ministry during the Grand Tattoo (Grosser Zapfenstreich), a ceremonial send-off for her in Berlin on December 2, 2021. (Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP)

Merkel: Virus death toll ‘so bitter because it is avoidable’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) receives a bouquet from Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (right) prior to the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. Merkel was given flowers as this was probably her last cabinet session as German chancellor as negotiations are going on to form a new government after elections were held in September. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

‘Remarkable’ changes to come to Germany’s leadership as Merkel prepares to depart

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a debate about the measures to battle the coronavirus and COVID-19 at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. Germany's national disease control center reported a record-high number of more than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases on Thursday as the country's parliament was set to discuss legislation that would provide a new legal framework for coronavirus measures.(Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Angela Merkel says people have ‘duty’ to get vaccinated

Merkel knows nothing of Middle East

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, smiles after she received a medal by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), during the inauguration ceremony of the 'WHO Hub For Pandemic And Epidemic Intelligence" at the Langenbeck-Virchow building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)

Angela Merkel steps down with legacy dominated by tackling crises

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech during a special session of the German parliament Bundestag on Afghanistan in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)

With Merkel going, candidates fail to inspire German voters

President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden’s pivot from nuclear war to civil war — danke!

President Joe Biden meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden, Merkel meet at WH in German leader’s final visit

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a press conference following her visit to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Merkel visited the health ministry's leading institute in the Corona pandemic at the invitation of Health Minister Spahn. (Michael Kappeler/Pool via AP)

VP Harris hosts German Chancellor Merkel for breakfast

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, June 24, 2021. At their summit in Brussels, EU leaders are set to take stock of coronavirus recovery plans, study ways to improve relations with Russia and Turkey, and insist on the need to develop migration partners with the countries of northern Africa, but a heated exchange over a new LGBT bill in Hungary is also likely. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)

Germany’s Angela Merkel warns: Europe still on ‘thin ice’ in battling the coronavirus’ delta variant

Tugs pull the Russian pipe-laying vessel &quot;Fortuna&quot; out of the harbor and into the Baltic Sea at the port of Wismar, Germany, Thursday, Jan 14, 2021. The special vessel is being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. ( Jens Buettner/dpa via AP) ** FILE **

Russia fetes, Ukraine frets over Biden pipeline ploy

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a press conference after the informal EU summit and the EU-China summit in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Merkel reiterated her stance that the shortage of vaccines worldwide would not be solved by a waiver of patents, as suggested by U.S. President Biden. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP)

Merkel hopeful on Europe summer travel even without vaccine

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that she would be willing to step in if asked.

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