BERLIN — For Angela Merkel, meetings like the G20 summit in Hamburg are usually an opportunity to shine. This one comes with a strong dose of trouble.
The longtime German leader is known as the “summit chancellor” — Gipfelkanzlerin — for her ability to turn powwows with world leaders into bumps in the polls. Repeating the feat this week will require a tricky balancing act.
Officials from the chancellor’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) say they have identified “three critical variables†that could go badly wrong in Hamburg: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Source: European Voice
