Olaf Scholz may have imagined that the succession of Angela Merkel would be a long calm river.
His political career had flourished under the benevolent star of the former Chancellor, whose centrist ideas and maternal postures this Social Democrat had copied to better get elected.
Alas, the inheritance turns out to be partly poisoned.
Sixteen years of prudent management, applauded when everything was going well, but without risk-taking or audacity in reform, left Germany ill-prepared for the mounting storm.
In power for less than a year, the new Chancellor has not been spared the hardships: war in Ukraine, energy crisis, soaring inflation and now the risk of recession.
Europe's economic colossus finds itself at the mercy of the Kremlin autocrat, who plays with the gas tap like a cat with a ball of yarn.
Vladimir Putin calculated that his dependence made Germany the weak link in Europe and that by destabilizing it…
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