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FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, German chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and her successor as chairman of the German Christian Democratic Union, CDU, Armin Laschet, right, point during a meeting in Duesseldorf, Germany. Elections in two German states on Sunday pose a difficult test for Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, six months before a national vote that will determine who succeeds the country's longtime leader. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Merkel’s party suffers defeats in 2 German state elections

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

Election posters show Winfried Kretschmann from the Greens and the party's top candidate for the Baden-Wurttemberg federal state elections in Mannheim, Germany, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The elections will take place next Sunday. Letters on left poster read &quot;edges stabilize&quot;, letters on right poster read &quot;you know me&quot;. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Angela Merkel’s party faces tough election-year test in state polls

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes off her mask at the beginning of the Federal Cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Michael Kappeler/Pool via AP)

Germany extends lockdown but paves way to relax more rules

By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, cabins of a vaccine center that was introduced to the media are seen in Wiesbaden, Germany. With accusations of being slow off the blocks in the race to immunize its citizens against COVID-19, Germany faces the problem of having a glut of vaccines and not enough arms to inject. With its national vaccine campaign lagging far behind that of Israel, Britain and the United States, there are growing calls in this country of 83 million to ditch or rewrite the rulebook. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, FILE)

Tactical shift: Europe seeks vaccine ‘overdrive’ to catch up

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Bavarian state governor Markus Soeder attends an Associated Press interview in Nuremberg, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Markus Soeder is many things: state governor of Bavaria, Star Trek fan, a conservative for whom combating climate change is an article of faith. The question Germans are asking now is: can the 54-year-old win enough backing across the political spectrum to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor in September. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Beam me up? Bavarian governor eyes top job after Merkel

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

A doctor vaccinates a caregiver at the fourth vaccination center in Berlin, located in Terminal C of the former Tegel Airport, Germany, Wednesday, Feb.10, 2021. Here, at the beginning, mainly nurses and medical staff are vaccinated against the coronavirus. (Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Merkel says German vaccine centers will be full by April

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

The doors of the small family-run Heller brewery pub are closed in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Bars have been closed for over three months, Carnival celebrations are canceled and it’s not clear when things will get better. That's a big problem for Germany's many small brewers, which rely heavily on selling draft beer to bars and restaurants. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Germany to reopen schools, hairdressers as virus cases drop

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel points as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)

Merkel says Germany past ‘crest of 2nd wave,’ urges patience

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Thuringia's state governor Bodo Ramelow holds his glasses during a break as part of a special plenary session of the Thuringian parliament in Erfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. State governor Ramelow has apologized for referring to her as “little Merkel” during a recent online event, saying he had unintentionally displayed macho behavior. (Michael Reichel/dpa via AP)

German governor apologizes for ‘little Merkel’ comment

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 during an online conference at the Davos Agenda. The Davos Agenda from Jan. 25 to Jan. 29, 2021 is an online edition due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The global effort in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic is among the major topics facing the Davos forum this year. (Sean Gallup/Pool Photo via AP)

Merkel: pandemic shows German weaknesses, need to cooperate

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to the media during a press conference on the current situation in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Topics include the decisions taken by the federal and state governments to combat the Corona pandemic, the Chancellor's upcoming virtual consultations with the heads of state and government of the European Union (EU), and relations with the United States following the inauguration of the new president. (Michael Kappeler/Pool via AP)

Germany’s Merkel stands by Russia pipeline that US opposes

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel sits in a car, leaving the Federal Press Conference building after a press conference on the current situation in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Topics included the decisions of the federal and state governments to combat the Corona pandemic, the Chancellor's upcoming virtual consultations with the heads of state and government of the European Union (EU), and relations with the United States following the inauguration of the new president. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Germany’s Merkel points to variant risk as infections drop

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People stay in the new open Erika-Hess-Eisstadion vaccine center in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (Kay Nietfeld/Pool via AP)

Germany to extend virus shutdown until mid-February

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2020 file photo, the three candidates for the chairmanship of the Christian Democratic Union party, CDU, Friedrich Merz, left, Norbert Roettgen, center, and Armin Laschet, right, take part in a discussion at the party's headquarters in Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, is choosing a new leader on the weekend Saturday Jan. 16 and Sunday Jan. 17, 2021, a decision that will help determine who succeeds Merkel at the helm of the European Union's biggest economy after a 16-year reign.Background slogan reads: 'CDU Chairmanship: The candidate round'. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany: Merkel’s party elects pragmatic Laschet as leader

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

File - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the debate about Germany's budget 2021, at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, is choosing a new leader on the weekend Saturday Jan. 16 and Sunday Jan. 17, 2021, a decision that will help determine who succeeds Merkel at the helm of the European Union's biggest economy after a 16-year reign. Merkel, now 66, has steered Germany, and Europe, through a series of crises since she took office in 2005, she said over two years ago that she won't seek a fifth term as chancellor. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Merkel’s party opens convention to choose new leader

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

File - In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a news conference following talks of the government with the federal state governors, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, is choosing a new leader on the weekend Saturday Jan. 16 and Sunday Jan. 17, 2021, a decision that will help determine who succeeds Merkel at the helm of the European Union's biggest economy after a 16-year reign. Merkel, now 66, has steered Germany, and Europe, through a series of crises since she took office in 2005, she said over two years ago that she won't seek a fifth term as chancellor. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool, file)

Merkel’s party to choose new leader ahead of German election

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

In this Dec. 30, 2020, file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany’s Merkel: Trump’s Twitter eviction ‘problematic’

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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting wearing face masks in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (John Macdougall/Pool via AP, File)

Virus collides with politics as German election year starts

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

EMBARGO - UNTIL DEC. 31 00:00 A.M. CET - FREE FOR THURSDAY DEC. 31, 2020 NEWSPAPERS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, pool)

Merkel to Germans: Keep up anti-virus discipline in 2021

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

A lone man sits in front of a bar in the main party spot in the Alt-Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Germans enjoyed a largely relaxed summer with many restrictions lifted, the dividend of a rapid response to the initial coronavirus outbreak. But as people grew lax in following the rules the numbers began to climb to nearly quadruple the March daily record, and the country now finds itself in a new lockdown as it tries to bring the pandemic back under control. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

A pandemic atlas: Early success, growing concern in Germany

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press