Tausendfach geteilt: Zeigt dieses Foto Merkel als Teenager mit May und von der Leyen?

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Tausendfach geteilt: Zeigt dieses Foto Merkel als Teenager mit May und von der Leyen?  Ein virales Bild gibt vor, die ehemalige deutsche Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel als Teenager zu zeigen, zusammen mit anderen der ehemaligen britischen Premierministerin Theresa May und der Präsidentin der Europäischen Kommission Ursula von der Leyen.  LESEN SIE MEHR : http://de.euronews.com/2025/07/30/foto-merkel-teenager-may-von-der-leyen  Abonnieren Sie! Euronews gibt es in 12 Sprachen.

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00:00No, these European leaders were not snapped together in their teens.

00:08According to social media users, a picture circulating online allegedly shows former German Chancellor Angela Merkel

00:15alongside former British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

00:20The text on the photo alleges that the three childhood friends grew up together before going on to govern separate countries.

00:26The post has garnered more than 725,000 views recently after being shared on X and regularly resurfaces online.

00:34The post states that one of the teenagers in the photo is von der Leyen,

00:38but the modern-day picture below actually shows former Lithuanian president Dalia Garibaus-Kaite.

00:43Although von der Leyen was a member of Mrs Merkel's cabinet, she has never led a contrary contrary to the text on the photograph.

00:49As for the picture itself, by conducting a reverse image search, Euroverify traced it to an article published by Time magazine in 2015.

00:57Featuring childhood pictures of Merkel, it was published after she was nominated as Time Person of the Year in 2015.

01:03The caption states that Angela Kasner is featured on the left of the picture at a 1972 New Year's Eve party in Berlin.

01:10Kasner is Angela Merkel's maiden name.

01:12Although Euroverify was unable to identify who the other girls in the picture are,

01:16the European Commission has previously confirmed to the media that von der Leyen does not feature in the picture.

01:21Meanwhile, Lithuanian officials told Euroverify that Garibaus-Kaite is not in the picture either.

01:27Additionally, childhood pictures of Theresa May do not resemble either of the other two teenage girls in the photograph.

01:33So yes, this is a picture of the former German Chancellor as a teenager,

01:37but the other two world leaders mentioned in the text cannot be seen in it.

01:40These kind of false online claims are regularly spread by accounts that share conspiracy theories,

01:46posing the risk of discrediting European institutions and their member states' governments with unfounded allegations.

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