BIOGRAPHY

Angela Merkel - from Queen OF savings TO torch-bearer of democracy

AUTHOR: Hina
POSTED: 21/11/2016. at 16:25

http://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/svijet/angela-merkel-%E2%80%93-od-kraljice-stednje-do-bakljonose-demokracije/5285963/

From the time of KGB in Dresden to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

At that time, 35-year-old Merkel worked in the Berlin laboratory, but quickly joined a group called Democratic Awakening. The group merged with the Christian Democrats then Chancellor Helmut Kohl Merkel who took under his wing and sympathetically called "my girlfriend". Her mentor was not the only politician who underestimated Angela Merkel and therefore paid the price. When Kohl embroiled in a scandal by financing the campaign of 1999, Merkel has openly called for the party to get rid of him. This bold move has inspired her meteoric rise which in 2005 resulted in a victory in the elections and enter in the 'federal office' '. She was the first woman this position and the youngest of all the heads of government in history.

Leader of the free world

The party, which dominates the men from the south, mostly Catholics, women with communist East with two marriages behind her and no children, was and remained an outsider. As party leader, pushed the CDU towards the center of the implementation of social policy, by abolishing compulsory military service and the abandonment of nuclear energy.

During the debt crisis, Merkel has preached fiscal discipline and strict austerity measures. In southern Europe, is therefore openly hated and sometimes caricature portrayed in Nazi uniform. This picture changed with the outbreak of the migrant crisis, when it was Der Spiegel called the 'Mother Angela' and dressed in her habit nuns.

S Brexitom, choice of Donald Trump and the expansion of right-wing populism in Europe, Merkel waiting for new challenges. In the world of Inception outcome of the US presidential elections, many brave German political veteran see the lighthouse of hope, holding AFP. Professor at Oxford Timothy Ash in the Guardian recently wrote that Trump's victory 'Merkel became leader of the free world'.

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As I have 0 regards towards this critter I did not redact above text to straight English.

I am Croatian.

Some time before, there were The CROATAN people somewhere back there.

Croat navigators got there. And become native indians.

Sh..t happens.

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