Angela Merkel doesn’t deserve a quiet retirement
She was hailed as the world’s most powerful woman, the de facto leader of Europe and, for a while, of the free world. For 16 years Angela…
How does the most powerful woman in the world retire?
In this, she differs from her predecessors. On stepping down in 1982, Helmut Schmidt became director and publisher of Die Zeit, one of Germany’s largest newspapers. Helmut…
Merkel leaves behind a vulnerable world
The departure of Angela Merkel has been an occasion for euro-centrists to wax lyrical about her supposedly triumphant reign as German chancellor. It is true that she…