German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows what it’s like to be underestimated. Her political party, the Christian Democratic Union, was a stodgy old boys’ club when she first joined in the early 1990s, and most of her rivals tended to dismiss or ignore her, the pastor’s daughter with the chemistry degree—even as she passed them on her way to the top. What bothers her now, more than a decade into her tenure, is the opposite problem—the burden of being overestimated.
Merkel has President Barack Obama to thank for much of that. During his last official visit to Europe in mid-November, about a …read more
Source: Time
