Merkel has some valuable lessons in coalition politics for ‘arrogant’ DA
02 October 2022 - 00:00
Politics and foreign policy nerds the world over will know about former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s second official meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, in 2007. Merkel, who was elected chancellor the year before, travelled to the presidential residence in Sochi to discuss energy trade matters with Putin, who was nearing the end of his first two terms as leader of the Russian Federation...
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