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Merkel: The Magic of a Ruler

2021-01-23T23:50:04.104Z


With 75% popularity, after 15 years as Chancellor, Angela Merkel has transformed Germany and herself. Beyond the borders of his country, he has restored confidence in representative democracy


NICOLÁS AZNÁREZ

When I was a child in France in the eighties, the teacher in charge of my class showed us a film about World War II and, at the end, gave a shout of joy: “Hooray!

We beat those dirty boches! ”.

All the students chanted their "hooray" and raised their arms in victory.

Except for me, the daughter of a French mother and a German father.

I was eight years old, and after that I stopped speaking German with my father for six years.

The Germanophobia then prevailing in France and many other European countries made my German origins a drag.

I did not imagine that, one day, I ...

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