20 anni fa Angela Merkel divenne la prima donna cancelliere della Germania
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20 anni fa Angela Merkel divenne la prima donna cancelliere della Germania
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di MonsieurA
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16 long years without progress and relaxing on the laurels of the predecessor’s major reform
There are unconfirmed reports that this day will be observed as a new national day of mourning in the future. The day on which the future of the country was gambled away.
All she did was fucking over Europe.
Traitor.
How’d that work out for ya Germany ??
The biggest failure as cancelor for Germany..
Decent day to day decision-maker, but a bad strategic one
She would have been a good leader if there was never any crisis including future and all just works as it should all the time…yet, many would be easily leaders in such a case…what separate a good leader from just a placeholder one is crisis management and strategic thinking…but she had no foresight, no strategic thinking, no crisis thinking…a great leader is one, whose steps might not make best sense atm, but in 10+ yrs people and analyst go like ‘good decision’…looking back at merkel, what were her decisions like that? Maybe some can be found, but not any major ones…she made not good strategic decisions at minimum regarding refugees, then with russia-policies and lastly with green policies…she made a lot of good choices, but few if any were long-term strategic ones
The reason why Christmas markets in Germany are not safe
beginning of the end…
Close the nuclear plants because environment, buy ruzzian gas instead. No more gas, burn coals. Me smart…
danke Merkel
Thanks to her all Christmas market in Germany now come with merkelstones.
A bad day for Europe
if we knew then, what we know now.
And the country, alongside the whole EU, if not all of Europe, will suffer the consequences of her actions.
This is the day Europe was ruined.
AND it was a fking desaster!
Thank you for fucking up my life bitch.
“Merkel can’t be considered the worst chancellor because bar is to high”
Mass immigration, sucking putin’s cock, massive long term damage with discarding nuclear power. What a fucking shitshow.
Frau Stasi.
And it went downhill since. Until today.
The day Europe was fucked.
She did a great job 👏
The only thing more important (and significant) than the fact that she was the first woman to hold the post of Chancellor is that she is from the GDR 🙂
I miss Olaf unironically.
Wtf is this Facebook-like comment section?
As we’re on blaming everything on Merkel, I blame her for Michael Masi and Abu Dhabi 2021.
Worst European politician of my lifetime and is not even close.
What a shame of a chancellor, making deals with russia, and ultimately fueling their war machine
And second russian puppet of Germany
How well did that work out? 🤷🏾
Too much criticism for her. Everyone in europe except the country bordering Russia were pro appeasement and integration with Russia.
At least she kept German finance in order so that now germany has fiscal space to counter Russian menace unlike France Italy Spain and UK.
Closing down nuclear power station and rely heavily on Russian gas was extremely stupid. It has to be noted everyone* was is favor of this in Germany not just her.
Edit: not everyone but the majority.
The Germans don’t seem happy with his work lol
A hallmark of our aristocrats that have seized control of mainstream parties, so called center left and center right, has been to hail diversity as they appoint sold out institutionalist tools of the donor class not popular or trying to do anything popular, like returning lunches the rich steal.
We are supposed to vote for someone because they are a gender and ethnicity. It is insulting and just not true, voters care about what politicians stand for over race and gender.
The establishments still buy into that so called identity politics, as they run bad candidates whose selling point is they are not the far right whom now with the wind at their back are poised to run as reform and win sooner or later, then fix themselves in power, with the us and russia helping over and under the table. Ie private communications will be intercepted and shared with the far right or their allies to help them. Encrypted or no, the us has it corrupted.
Merkel is just another brick in the wall and the far right has artillery coming. Either we reform, or they will, those are the only two options.
Cut all nuclear power plants and believe the word of a tyrant even though you speak his language!
This worked out so well….. how much did Vlad pay her….??
Honestly not very nuanced conversation here. Hundreds of one sentence comment, almost like some boomers rambling on facebook.
I just finished reading her autobiography, just because of general interest and I have read books from many politicians.
Sure, I also disagree with many of the desicions. But I’d say that most commenters are too harsh and see things very black and white. Merkel is very strongly pro-democracy and pro-EU/european co-operation politician. During then, in Germany economy grew steadly, unemployment went down, and there’s now a lot of financial leeway as there was not that much debt. But you also could criticize her for just supporting status quo, and not investing enough on certain things.
I’d say that there are 5 topics from the book that were especially interesting and desicions that are controversial today (and were then); energy/nuclear policy, defence spending, NATO’s Bucharest summit in 2008, 2015 immigration desicions, and eurocrisis:
-In energy policy, desicion to shut down nuclear energy after Fukushima earlier. Note that Merkel wasn’t necessarily anti-nuclear – she even was minister responsible for nuclear safety in 90’s and defended nuclear energy in the situation where there were large-scale protests against it. And there is lots of anti-nuclear idea amongst population and parties in Germany, CDU/CSU actually generally were/are the pro-nuclear option.
-In NATO’s 2008 Bucharest summit, NATO blocked Ukraine’s entry into MEP. This was done primarily by Germany, France and others. So Germany wasn’t alone in this, it was quite mainstream. Poland, baltics and George Bush was supporting it. In the book she justified the desicion because according to polls under 50% of Ukrainians supported Nato membership and she doubted whether MEP would actually have increased stability. You can criticize this, but pretty much everyone had the same position except Bush, Poland and Baltics.
-About defence spending, she wrote that CDU/CSU had been pushing for higher defence spending after 2014 (in the time when VdL was defence minister); but SPD was against it. Not sure if this is correct.
-After 2015 got Merkel critisism in Germany, even inside CDU about immigration policy (about swift desicion to take migrants walking in Hungarian motorways one night), and that her “wir schaffen das” -speech were too supportive of immigration. But in the book she also wrote that she was the main negotiator about the EU-Turkey migration deals, and that she pushed EU to negotiate deals with northern african countries to curb migration – and that did work to some degree, it decreased immigration greatly to what it was in 2015.
-During eurocrisis and greek debt crisis, she supported the aid packages, because she feared that Greek exit from euro could cause even greater unstability or even collapse the whole currency. This also caused critisism inside Germany. AfD was established then, as a party that thought that these packages put EU’s benefit over Germany’s
The book was not really self-critical – she admitted that some minor desicions were wrong, but defended that all the major desicions were made using the information availeable back. Well, I think that I would personally have decided otherwise in some of them. But interesting book, it gave insight about the reasoning of many things, and reading about life in DDR was interesting as well. I’m personally not nearly as harsh as most of the commenters here even when I don’t agree with everything.
I feel like the opinion of her has shifted so much over the past few years as a non European.
One of the worst heads of Gouvernement the Federal Republic had in its History. But (mostly) not for the reasons most people think.
She is the only chancellor born in East Germany
And set Europe 20 years back
So cute
In retrospect that was a dark day for Germany. This woman ruined Germany with her policy of going the route of the least resistance every single time. And the Germans loved her for that. Well deserved
20 years…