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		</div><p>Former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s memoirs will be released in late November, nearly three years after the end of her 16-year tenure at the helm of one of Europe’s biggest powers, her publisher said.</p>
<p>The roughly 700-page volume, titled Freiheit (Freedom), will be published on November 26th, publisher Kiepenheuer &#038; Witsch announced.</p>
<p>The 69-year-old co-wrote the book with her longtime assistant and adviser Beate Baumann.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel, a former scientist who grew up in communist East Germany, became Germany’s first female chancellor on November 22nd, 2005.</p>
<p>She steered Germany through a succession of crises including the global financial crisis, Europe’s debt and migration crises and the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>The publisher quoted Mrs Merkel in a statement as saying that “for me, freedom is not stopping learning, not having to stand still but being able to go further, even after leaving politics”.</p>
<p>The company said the book will appear “worldwide in over 30 countries” but did not elaborate.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel has generally kept a low profile since handing over to current chancellor Olaf Scholz in December 2021.</p>
<p>She has stayed out of the political fray and away from events of her centre-right party, the Christian Democratic Union.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel was named The World’s Most Powerful Woman by Forbes magazine for 10 years in a row, and was seen as a powerful defender of liberal values in the West and a role model for girls.</p>
<figure id="attachment_182226" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-182226" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/E6664C71-B089-40DE-8D40-7C33B0647381.webp" alt="" width="640" height="481" class="size-full wp-image-182226" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-182226" class="wp-caption-text">Angela Merkel and Beate Baumann in 2006</figcaption></figure>
<p>But her record has faced criticism as well since she stepped down, notably her approach to Ukraine and Russia.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel has defended her actions, saying months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion that a much-criticised 2015 peace deal for eastern Ukraine bought Kyiv precious time and she will not apologise for her diplomatic efforts.</p>
<p>She has also defended her government’s decisions to buy large quantities of natural gas from Russia, which cut off supplies in 2022.</p>
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