angela merkel may yet leave office as germany's second longest—serving chancellor in the country's isa—year history — outlasting her predecessor, helmut kohl. although sunday's elections should identify her successor, mrs merkel may be around for a few months longer, as acting chancellor, whilst the political parties wrangle over the make—up of a new coalition government. stefanie, is it going to be a case of angela's ashes already scattered within a few months to the political history books? or is there a lasting legacy we can point to on german politics and indeed may be on european politics? because there seem to be some very different views on, really, whether she has had a significant political difference. we might have seen the title of the economist this week, with the headline the mess merkel leaves behind. increasingly, people look at her legacy and they think it's not very impressive. she has been managing one crisis after the other. first, the euro crisis ten years ago, then the refugee