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There is an interesting article in the Spiegel magazine today and i would like to hear some opinions from people abroad.
The basic facts are, that germany is richer than ever before and has more influence than ever before in the history. The economy is incredible strong, income and living standards are very high and even still rising. Even Merkels foreign policies seem to be very sucessful. Greece is recovering. Foreign european leaders like the british PM Cameron invite Merkel to speak in their parliament and gain something from her popularity. Polls in France say, that the french trust Merkel more than their own president.
In Germany Merkel is in her 3rd legislation period and her polls are incredible high. No matter what happens, she is untouched from evry scandal. Some say she almost rules like a queen. Her way to rule is very unusual. Absolute cold, calculating and without any passion. You can´t say she is conservative or liberal. She sees and issue and then acts. Sometimes with right conservative solutions, sometimes leftist. She banns nuclear power, installs a minimum wage on one side and on the other pushs the hardest austerity policies.
The article tries to understand what negative results come from this "imperial form of ruling". It looks like she does evrything herself. Her entire cabinet is pale and most don´t even know what Ministers are in her government. The only one who is able to stand out is foreignminister Steinmeier, because he is very renomated worldwide.
Her own party, the CDU is almost dead. It stands for nothing anymore. Its just "Merkels Party" or how some say "Merkels Voter Club". Their goals doesn´t matter. Their only argument is Merkel. You just have to look at their posters...like this gigantic Poster in Berlin:
It says nothing. Just "Chancellor for Germany" CDU.
Since she has no fix agenda and grabs left and right solutions whenever she thinks its useful the other parties die off. Best example for this is the "Green Party". They fought for decades to end nuclear power and for green energy. Merkel did it with one signature. Now the green party is basicly falling, simply because they lose their topics.
It looks like the normal democracy we are used to doesn´t work with Merkel. She rules more like an benevolent 17th century monarch. The position she reached in Germany and also the EU as whole is so titanic, that her competitors look like dwarves. And what makes things worse, there is nobody who could replace her. Some critical people say she thinks about herself as eternal and trust nobody. She could very well rule as chancellor for the next 10 - 20 years. But what then?
The basic facts are, that germany is richer than ever before and has more influence than ever before in the history. The economy is incredible strong, income and living standards are very high and even still rising. Even Merkels foreign policies seem to be very sucessful. Greece is recovering. Foreign european leaders like the british PM Cameron invite Merkel to speak in their parliament and gain something from her popularity. Polls in France say, that the french trust Merkel more than their own president.
In Germany Merkel is in her 3rd legislation period and her polls are incredible high. No matter what happens, she is untouched from evry scandal. Some say she almost rules like a queen. Her way to rule is very unusual. Absolute cold, calculating and without any passion. You can´t say she is conservative or liberal. She sees and issue and then acts. Sometimes with right conservative solutions, sometimes leftist. She banns nuclear power, installs a minimum wage on one side and on the other pushs the hardest austerity policies.
The article tries to understand what negative results come from this "imperial form of ruling". It looks like she does evrything herself. Her entire cabinet is pale and most don´t even know what Ministers are in her government. The only one who is able to stand out is foreignminister Steinmeier, because he is very renomated worldwide.
Her own party, the CDU is almost dead. It stands for nothing anymore. Its just "Merkels Party" or how some say "Merkels Voter Club". Their goals doesn´t matter. Their only argument is Merkel. You just have to look at their posters...like this gigantic Poster in Berlin:
It says nothing. Just "Chancellor for Germany" CDU.
Since she has no fix agenda and grabs left and right solutions whenever she thinks its useful the other parties die off. Best example for this is the "Green Party". They fought for decades to end nuclear power and for green energy. Merkel did it with one signature. Now the green party is basicly falling, simply because they lose their topics.
It looks like the normal democracy we are used to doesn´t work with Merkel. She rules more like an benevolent 17th century monarch. The position she reached in Germany and also the EU as whole is so titanic, that her competitors look like dwarves. And what makes things worse, there is nobody who could replace her. Some critical people say she thinks about herself as eternal and trust nobody. She could very well rule as chancellor for the next 10 - 20 years. But what then?
How can he post again? Did Merkel allow Internet on Cyprus again? 
