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Corona crisis: Chancellor Merkel earns international praise - "One of the strongest leaders in the world"

2020-10-21T10:22:20.198Z


Angela Merkel is currently being celebrated internationally. What did you do right that the German corona numbers are comparatively low?


Angela Merkel is currently being celebrated internationally.

What did you do right that the German corona numbers are comparatively low?

  • Angela Merkel

    has experience of crises - she has had to prove that several times.

  • Internationally, she receives

    praise

    for the comparatively good

    Corona numbers

    in Europe.

  • Her knowledge, but also the German health system and a bit of luck, will help her.

Berlin -

Angela Merkel

(CDU *) has been German Chancellor * since

November 22, 2005

and has been moving from crisis to crisis since then.

The financial crisis in 2008, the discussion about the nuclear phase-out after Fukushima in 2011, the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, the wave of refugees in 2015 and now the

Corona crisis in

2020. Many commentators call her “Merkel, the crisis chancellor”.

Even in these Corona months, the recognition of your crisis management abroad is great.

As early as May 2020, the US television broadcaster

CNN took up

the fact which unusual measure it was taking to appeal to the Germans.

In a

televised address

that had nothing to do with her annual New Year's speech, in mid-March she called for joint action in solidarity *.

As

CNN

wrote at the time, it presented "the dire facts of the pandemic while offering a dose of compassion."

Hitting the right note - this is

important

in

times of crisis in

order to motivate the population to participate.

Drama in the statement, but calm, sober language that

exudes

trust

- Angela Merkel is said to have these qualities.

The

satisfaction of

the population with the

federal government

and its corona measures skyrocketed.

One or the other suddenly wished that Merkel would run again as Chancellor for four more years after 2021.

Angela Merkel in the video podcast - "We are now in a very serious phase of the corona pandemic"

In a report in the British daily The Guardian it is said: The quick action, for example with "extensive tests from the start", numerous

intensive care beds

and Merkel's direct approach to take the virus seriously, have made Germany better than many other countries Europe had come through the first corona wave.

This crisis could also be particularly important to Merkel because, as a

graduate physicist

*

with a doctorate brings a scientific background into everyday political life.

Two experts from the

German Marshall Fund of the United States

write that they use their knowledge to speak clearly about the virus

.

In doing so, however, she did not

lose sight of

the importance of

democracy

.

After all, it was and is a balancing act to adopt health security measures and uphold democratic freedoms.

Angela Merkel receives a lot of international praise for her Corona management in Germany

The German hype about

virologists

is also unusual.

“We don't have any respect for virologists like in Germany,” Focus.de quotes the Flemish Germany expert Dirk Rochtus from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Thousands of Germans listened in March and April to the podcast episodes of the virologist

Christian Drosten

from the Berlin Charité and watched the press conferences of the

Robert Koch Institute

.

Merkel has worked closely with scientists * from the start.

It is, so to speak, a golden conclusion about Angela Merkel, which international media present.

“The media here consider Merkel to be one of the strongest

leaders in

the world,” Amichai Stein, diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli public television broadcaster Kan, told

Deutsche Welle

.

All of @ OurWorldInData's data on COVID-19 testing has just been updated.



Latest positive rates in Europe:


🇺🇦 Ukraine: 17.2%


🇵🇱 Poland: 12.3%


🇪🇸 Spain: 10%


🇫🇷 France: 7.5%


🇮🇹 Italy: 6.3%


🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 5.9%


🇷🇺 Russia: 2.8%


🇩 🇪 Germany: 1.4%



(Source: https://t.co/z0HnOz4gb5) pic.twitter.com/rsK5lXMWEF

- Edouard Mathieu (@redouad) October 14, 2020

Merkel and Corona: A little luck is also part of the fight against coronavirus in Germany

But is the good balance only due to Merkel?

The English-language news portal Vox was also concerned about why the

number of cases

per million inhabitants

in Germany is

comparatively low and why the death rate is very low from the start compared to other Western European countries.

In their analysis they go one step further than the previously mentioned aspects of good

health care

in the country and the clear words of the Chancellor.

In summary, they consider four components to be decisive: happiness, learning processes,

local reaction

and listening.

The quick tracing of the first known German case at the

automotive supplier Webasto

already provided the health service and officials with useful experience, which could continuously be built on during the period of the pandemic.

Germany has also adopted findings from other countries and

quickly expanded

test capacities

such as in South Korea.

Vox also speaks to the federal system, which is hated by some.

Although some measures repeatedly cause confusion and the famous

"patchwork quilt"

is quickly on everyone's lips, the advantage is unmistakable: quick action and responsiveness to local needs.

It is of particular importance that politicians then still listen to scientists, even if new knowledge overturns and overtakes one another.

* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

Source: merkur

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