Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s suicide, Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II and its isolation and breakup, the country is a colossus once again, and its chancellor was just named by Forbes as the world’s most powerful woman. Angela Merkel, one of the globe’s most respected and influential statespersons, is playing a central role on at least two issues of global importance: Western relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the coherence and continuing survival of the EU and the common European currency, the Euro. On both matters Merkel has had a calming and stabilizing influence. She clearly is the …read more
Source: European Voice
