Angela Merkel does speak English, but rarely does so in public. Growing up in East Germany under the Soviet Union, she would have learned Russian instead of English as a second language.

Languages: English ... Angela Merkel reacts after her last speech as the Christian Democratic Union's leader at a federal executive board meeting in Hamburg on December 7. Merkel will speak ...

Angela Merkel is the European ... Paris tends to this view, as does the German SPD and Mr Juncker. Ms Merkel is, in EU speak, an “intergovernmentalist”, seeing the EU as an instrument of ...