Merkel to Face Protests On First Crisis Visit To Greece
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell Greeks she wants to keep their country in the euro when she visits Athens this week, but she faces a hostile reception from a people worn down by years of...
View ArticleWhy Germans Are Shocked by Angela Merkel’s Communist Past
With a general election approaching in Germany this fall, Angela Merkel finds herself mired in a scandal about her communist upbringing. The belated reckoning with Merkel’s past reveals little about...
View ArticleMerkel 3.0
Germans love Angela Merkel, first and foremost because she asks little of them. It is a strategy she will be likely to continue following should she return to the Chancellery for a third term. But it...
View ArticleThe Ignorant President
The news that the National Security Agency was monitoring the telephones of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and many other foreign leaders is less shocking than the revelation that, for the first...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Merkel Govern Germany?
Angela Merkel won Germany’s parliamentary elections by a landslide. Two months later, though, she still hasn’t managed to put together a government. Read Here – BusinessWeekFiled under: Europe Tagged:...
View ArticleGermany Takes Command
On Nov. 9, Berlin will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall that divided the city during much of the Cold War. At the time, images of exuberant wall-breakers signaled the end of...
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