The ex-chancellor Germany Angela Merkel received the highest state award Germany

The former chancellor Germany Angela Merkel tonight, on April 17, received the highest state award of the country — the Big cross of the award "For Merits before the Federal Republic Germany". The ceremony took place in the Bellevue lock in Berlin, an award the president handed over to the ex-chancellor Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Angela Merkel Photo: Michele Tantussi, information agency "Reuters" Angela Merkel is awarded the highest state award for "outstanding merits before the nation". It became only the third who received this honor, after the former chancellors Adenauer Konrad and Helmut Joseph Mikhael Kol. On...