Germanys military capability and readiness and that goes hand in hand with someone that was enough on the line has tried to present she on the one hand has tried to obviously improve the capabilities of the military and on the other hand she has tried to present a vision of a germany that is more and more ready to act internationally more and more ready to lead also on an International Stage not going to last surely but something that she described a few years ago as leading from the center and otherwise in other words leading alongside other liberal countries something that she stressed in the past as i said under something that in a way could help her position if she is indeed chosen as the head of the European Commission. The Dutch Social Democrat of france to months because particularly of his more open position on migration but also funding that we should say she was a very supportive stood behind Trance Americal and her policy towards migration and
refugees during the migration a
politicians there are those who support her role there are those who criticize her role as germany s minister of defense there is still a long way to go thomas we have to wait to see if the european parliament indeed confirms her to be the next commission president but if she is confirmed what would that mean for germany. it would certainly mean 1st and foremost a victory for angela merkel probably a rather quiet victory for on them a call in particular after a few days ago she was seen as someone who could probably lose out in all of this as her preferred candidate month was day and day and day seen as someone who were not good that top position but in the end. did manage to get that top german position on not only a top position for a german but a top position for one of her closest political allies as i already said it was a reform deadline has been described as the only person the only minister who has continuously since the 2005 that is since i m going to call became german