Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Merkel and the return of imperial Germany"

The hour of the assessments, for a leader, often corresponds to the hour of praise.

Angela Merkel is entitled to hers, surprisingly, however, as long as we think of her inheritance, which is not glorious.

Of course, the German leader remained in power for 16 years, and in politics, duration has its value.

But as long as we assess its footprint on the scale of history, we will judge it otherwise.

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Because beyond the thousands of decisions that shaped her passage to power, the most important event will remain the migrant crisis of 2015, when Angela Merkel decided to accept a million migrants, which would transform the demographic destiny. of Germany and the composition of its population - we learned, after the fact, that a large number of them were not Syrians, but the diversion of the right to asylum in the migratory path in its own right is not more to demonstrate.

She didn't want to miss some form of corrective date with the story, and the possibility of some form of redemption.

Many saw in this decision an economic calculation, to rejuvenate the German population.

She would testify

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