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Acacia
From 2013, Journalist Stephan Hebel:
“Ms. Merkel is following a very clear political agenda behind the play ‘I am for everyone’, which is socially unjust and essentially neoliberal, free-market, economically more or less, not because she is a conspirator or whatever and I am therefore not angry, but more astonished but because, in my opinion, she acts in the deep belief that what serves the economy also serves the country.” Merkels Agenda ist „neoliberal, marktliberal, wirtschaftshörig“
Edward
That’s how I feel. Nobody wants to be in the Covid doghouse with the Americans, but she is somewhat like Germany’s Biden, perhaps without the same propensity for lying and less militarism. She had a role in creating the Greek and Ukraine disasters, supported the Syrian Jihadists, and has done a terrible job dealing with the EU’s economic and structural problems. I was under the impression, when she became Chancellor, that she would take turns in that office