Mark my words, Germans – and the world – will be better off without Merkel
ANALYSIS | After four terms in office, outgoing German chancellor is overrated at home and abroad
29 August 2021 - 18:50
Angela Merkel has long had her admirers in the anglophone media. In November 2015 the Economist called her “the indispensable European”. A month later the Financial Times named her its “person of the year”. Time magazine proclaimed her “chancellor of the free world”. When Donald Trump was elected president of the US, the New York Times dubbed Merkel “the liberal West’s last defender”...
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