Athens
It is certainly not in Greece that Angela Merkel will collect a shower of tributes.
According to a survey carried out in 16 countries by the Pew Research Center, only 30% of Greeks say they have confidence in it compared to more than 70% in other European countries.
She will have aroused resentment, left deep scars and was arguably the most hated politician.
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For the Hellenes, the Chancellor will have embodied the face of all the crises that the country has gone through in recent years.
Starting with the economic and budgetary earthquake which plunged Greece into ten years of rigorous cures.
Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister from January 2015 to July 2019, was also elected with the sole program of dismissing the Germans from the management of the country's economic policy, with his famous slogan “
go back Mrs Merkel
”.
A majority of Greeks made her take on the role of a nemesis.
"A very strong anti-German feeling"
Today and after having worked with Angela Merkel for a long time, Alexis Tsipras considers that his
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