The German chancellor has emerged as Europe’s lone champion, but she faces a daunting and potentially thankless taskIn what could prove a watershed moment in her long political career, Angela Merkel is playing go-between this week with two angry superpowers while trying to deliver peace to a European continent terrified that the Ukraine conflict could expand into an all-out, east-west war with Russia. She faces a daunting and potentially thankless task. The German chancellor has emerged as Europe’s lone champion in the dread-filled months following Vladimir Putin’s calm-shattering invasion and annexation of Crimea almost one year ago. In part through …read more
Source: The Guardian
