Angela Merkel Going To Do It Again?.
It was a mild November night. And in Berlin something unbelievable was happening.
Hundreds, and then thousands, of incredulous East Germans surged towards what was once an impassable divide and found they could cross it unchallenged.
Later, crowds cheered as young men with pick axes chipped away at the concrete that had separated them from the West for decades.
As they sang and lit candles, reporters, stiff in their overcoats, spoke into the cameras.
The Iron Curtain had parted. The Berlin Wall was falling. One of the defining moments of the 20th Century was underway.
And Angela Merkel went for her weekly sauna.
“It was Thursday,” she said many years later, “and Thursday was my sauna day so that’s where I went.”
Merkel did eventually venture to the West that night - and back again the following day - but she was in no rush.
“I figured if the Wall had opened it was hardly going to close again.”
The response was typical of the young quantum chemist. And her approach – unhurried analysis in the face of high drama – is one with which the whole world has become familiar.
Angela Merkel is one of this century’s most enduring and powerful leaders - chancellor of Germany since 2005 and one of the world’s most recognisable figures.
Her strength has grown during Europe’s economic crises. And from her role as a conduit between Russia and the West. For many, Merkel represents stability in an unstable and shifting world.
Planning the future of a European Union without the UK. Quietly reinforcing new global alliances in the stormy wake of Donald Trump’s chaotic administration. Admirers declare her the last defender of Western democratic values. But while she is revered by many, she has also been reviled and caricatured for her uncompromising stances - on Greek debt, on refugee policy, on the environment.
And yet we know very little about her. Even in her own country, she remains an enigmatic figure.
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It was a mild November night. And in Berlin something unbelievable was happening.
Hundreds, and then thousands, of incredulous East Germans surged towards what was once an impassable divide and found they could cross it unchallenged.
Later, crowds cheered as young men with pick axes chipped away at the concrete that had separated them from the West for decades.
As they sang and lit candles, reporters, stiff in their overcoats, spoke into the cameras.
The Iron Curtain had parted. The Berlin Wall was falling. One of the defining moments of the 20th Century was underway.
And Angela Merkel went for her weekly sauna.
“It was Thursday,” she said many years later, “and Thursday was my sauna day so that’s where I went.”
Merkel did eventually venture to the West that night - and back again the following day - but she was in no rush.
“I figured if the Wall had opened it was hardly going to close again.”
The response was typical of the young quantum chemist. And her approach – unhurried analysis in the face of high drama – is one with which the whole world has become familiar.
Angela Merkel is one of this century’s most enduring and powerful leaders - chancellor of Germany since 2005 and one of the world’s most recognisable figures.
Her strength has grown during Europe’s economic crises. And from her role as a conduit between Russia and the West. For many, Merkel represents stability in an unstable and shifting world.
Planning the future of a European Union without the UK. Quietly reinforcing new global alliances in the stormy wake of Donald Trump’s chaotic administration. Admirers declare her the last defender of Western democratic values. But while she is revered by many, she has also been reviled and caricatured for her uncompromising stances - on Greek debt, on refugee policy, on the environment.
And yet we know very little about her. Even in her own country, she remains an enigmatic figure.
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