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Euro-skeptic sentiment has also increased dramatically in Italy and Spain. It also fueled tensions and clashes with other EU member states, especially with nearby Central European countries, Poland, Austria and Hungary. On Germany her record looks less mixed. Although her foes — and some Green lawmakers — have also pointed out that closing the power stations has meant Germany has had to resort to an excessive use of coal adding to greenhouse emissions. For Germans that has been a reassuring gift.
Search Search. Ms Merkel's best result was in when she came within five seats of winning a majority. Some have put her success down to her adherence to the tried and tested, or to formulas. She has maintained a strong Christian faith throughout her life and has been known to speak in church meetings and talk about her beliefs — something that has helped her counter those who have criticised her welcoming of Muslim refugees.
Her relationship with the church and her background as a post-graduate research scientist PhD in quantum chemistry has led to comparisons to Margaret Thatcher masters in chemistry , but she is considered much more understated, and potentially, therefore, less divisive. She is extremely assured in her style, with her almost identikit outfits successfully smothering any chatter about what she is wearing, distracting from her political messaging. But beyond her political appearance and appearances, she is most frequently photographed enjoying one of her greatest passions — football — as a major cheerleader for the national team's success over the years.
Inevitably, after 16 years at the top, there remains a number of criticisms of her legacy, besides the resentment from some about the high number of immigrants allowed to stay in Within months of the influx caused by the migration crisis, there was a sharp rise in far-right-linked violence, spiking after a long period which saw relatively few incidents. In the election, the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland AfD party, which had only been founded four years before, became the third largest party in the Bundestag.
It came in a country that has a longstanding ban on Nazi symbols. A protest by the far-right anti-immigrant group PEGIDA in Dresden in was among the expressions of anger against the influx of Syrian refugees during the migration crisis. And while support for the AfD appears to have slipped slightly since , violence linked to the far-right has surged and has reached a year high since records began. The epicentre of much of the hate crime is the old East, underscoring how a woman who grew up there has failed to tackle the degree to which the area previously under communist control has remained disadvantaged since unification.
While there was jubilation for many when the Berlin Wall fell in , the former East Germany has struggled to see the same economic success that the old West has continued to enjoy, even under ex-East German Ms Merkel. Many say that unification — which brought together two countries and completely different systems after the fall of the Iron Curtain in , costing hundreds of billions of Deutschmarks and then euros — has been a success, and Ms Merkel has presided over a German economy that has prospered despite the cost.
But others say it has been at the expense of the old East, which is still economically behind the old West German regions. Another criticism levelled at Ms Merkel's Germany is its failure to fully switch to the renewable energy she said it would embrace after she decided to abandon nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Many environmentalists blame Angela Merkel's governments for failing to stop the use of polluting coal-fired power stations.
If the Greens do well on Sunday, it might be put down to the long standing chancellor earlier this year rejecting demands to bring forward an exit date for coal-powered energy generation in Germany. That date of is almost decades behind countries like the UK. But, with a week being a long time in politics, 16 years is a very, very long time. And after such huge span of time at the top, even her critics admit, in the international arena at least, her absence will leave a very very large hole.
Watch Live. By Philip Whiteside, international news reporter. Donner und Blitzen Within two years of her election in , Ms Merkel faced one of the biggest crises the world has faced in recent times, when the financial system nearly collapsed.
Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And Joe Biden. Volks Mutti It was back in when Ms Merkel announced she would be stepping down after the next German federal elections.
She has also endured through five UK prime ministers, including: Tony Blair. Gordon Brown. David Cameron. Theresa May. And Boris Johnson. Zeitgeists So, what made this woman who has contrastingly been called Germany's Mutti, and also the new Iron Chancellor, in reference to Germany's Herman von Bismark and, to a certain extent, Margaret Thatcher?
Angela Merkel knows the style that works for her and sticks to it. Ms Merkel has been a constant sight on the world stage, meeting the Queen several times.
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