BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has emerged undamaged from the global financial crisis, European bailouts, an astonishing u-turn on nuclear power and the crisis over Ukraine.
[…] voters are unlikely to hold a failure of that effort against her “because she has owned this role of protector in the euro crisis for several years,” said Peter Matuschek, the head of political and social research at Germany’s Forsa polling agency.
Merkel’s knack for reassuring Germans that she has a confusing crisis under control dates back at least to 2008 when, amid the fallout from Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy, she announced that the …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle