The German Chancellor didn’t solve anything or move anything – she just sat out. And it leaves a time bomb for posterity that should go off at some point.
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With her it is less irritating to her as a personality than to the fact that all of this is left behind for her: Angela Merkel at the last CDU election campaign event in Aachen (September 25, 2021).
Photo: Friedemann Vogel (EPA / Keystone)
When Joe Biden moved into the White House in January, it is reported «Wall Street Journal», he wanted to honor Angela Merkel by being the first foreign politician to call her. Not Macron, not Johnson, not Putin, not Xi Jinping. But Merkel let him know that it wasn’t at all convenient for her: the appointment would have fallen on Friday afternoon, and she planned to do some gardening in her dacha in the Uckermark, maybe a walk in the forest, but certainly not a phone call with still the most influential man in the world. So Biden tried it on Monday after calling many other politicians, which Merkel’s advisors had warned about. You forgive yourself something, they said. But Germany’s interest in foreign policy outweighed the chancellor’s leisure activities.
– Angela Merkel’s modest record
The German Chancellor didn’t solve anything or move anything – she just sat out. And it leaves a time bomb for posterity that should go off at some point.
opinionMarkus Somm
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With her it is less irritating to her as a personality than to the fact that all of this is left behind for her: Angela Merkel at the last CDU election campaign event in Aachen (September 25, 2021).
Photo: Friedemann Vogel (EPA / Keystone)
When Joe Biden moved into the White House in January, it is reported «Wall Street Journal», he wanted to honor Angela Merkel by being the first foreign politician to call her. Not Macron, not Johnson, not Putin, not Xi Jinping. But Merkel let him know that it wasn’t at all convenient for her: the appointment would have fallen on Friday afternoon, and she planned to do some gardening in her dacha in the Uckermark, maybe a walk in the forest, but certainly not a phone call with still the most influential man in the world. So Biden tried it on Monday after calling many other politicians, which Merkel’s advisors had warned about. You forgive yourself something, they said. But Germany’s interest in foreign policy outweighed the chancellor’s leisure activities.
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