Residents of Germany last week are pondering over where their chancellor went. Angela Merkel, who has been resting with her husband Joachim Sauer for the last 10 years in the Italian Alps, did not appear this year at the Solden resort. Her husband settled in his beloved four-star hotel Merkel along with his son from his first marriage, and now the Germans are wondering whether the absence of Frau Chancellor was caused by the crisis of her marriage or some secret mission, reports The Times.. Meanwhile, Merkel's calendar does not plan any important business until August 20 - she is on vacation, so it's unclear why she is not with her faithful husband. The office of the Chancellor in Berlin refuses to report her whereabouts, says The Telegraph. However, the reporter of the Suddeutsche Zeitung published on August 1 noticed Merkel in one of the Berlin department stores.

It is worth mentioning the fact that last week, a few days after the start of her vacation, Angela Merkel met in Berlin with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and General Valery Gerasimov, one of the key figures of the Russian military operation in Syria,. The office of the Chancellor declined to comment on these negotiations. At the same time, The Times admits that the head of Germany may be at his mother - it was reported that Gerlinda Kasner had health problems.