German Chancellor Angela Merkel could win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the influential Bild newspaper said Friday, as the leader is lauded worldwide for her courage in opening her country’s doors to refugees fleeing war and persecution.
“Chancellor Angela Merkel has a good chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize,” said the newspaper.
“Reasons: her actions in the Ukraine crisis and the refugee policies,” it added.
The report came a day after the director of Norway’s Peace Research Institute, Kristian Berg Harpviken, a leading peace prize analyst and one of the few to publish a shortlist predicted that Merkel, 61, will be this …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
