Angela Merkel
Merkel’s many faces: a chancellorship of paradoxes
When Donald Trump ascended to the White House in early 2017, the repercussions for the west were as of yet unclear. His defeated rival, Hillary Clinton, was the candidate of orthodoxy; the status-quo figure, whose temperament echoed that of her would-be predecessor Barack Obama, was expected to reaffirm a dedication to multilateralism that had become […]
Bavaria election: the decline of populism or rejection of Merkel and her allies?
1 week after the election in Bavaria, Germany, Elizabeth Mohr examines the implications of the result and the message of the voters.