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The Carlos V Foundation has honored Chancellor Angela Merkel for her Europeanism. She is the second German leader after Helmut Kohl to receive this award. It will be delivered to him in the presence of the Kings and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on October 14 in Yuste. The chancellor will have already lost executive powers, although she will be in charge of the Executive, waiting for the formations that will attend the September 26 elections to negotiate a new government coalition.

Spain dismisses Merkel with the Carlos V award with all the honors, although

Spain apparently does not have much to thank the European partner

.

Merkel

, as she is popularly called in this country, the most powerful woman in the European Union, the ruler with whom others are measured or were measured, the one who ensures common financial austerity, decides what is shared or believed Like Russian President Vladimir Putin, it was possible to create a free trade area from Lisbon to Vladivostok has always looked more to the East than to the South.

Not even Italy, the third largest economy in the EU and Germany's main trading partner in the EU, has had the political weight that Merkel deserved as such. Whether it was Silvio Berlusconi, Mario Monti, Mateo Renzi or Guissepe Conte, none of them became part of the hard core of the EU. Too many changes, too much uncertainty for a woman who is governed by the principle of stability. Consensus before confrontation, coalition with the opposition before minority government and early elections. Neither José María Aznar or Mariano Rajoy managed to establish a privileged relationship with the German Chancellor, even though they were part of the same popular European family.

With Pedro Sánchez there seems to be more empathy, but Merkel calls Eliseo before Moncloa

.

The German-Spanish bilateral summit scheduled for 2019 in Madrid, after a 5-year hiatus, never took place.

Spain has pursued its interests and the last have been the substantial Next Generation funds, forming pressure with its southern neighbors.

And if it were for Germany, the European pact on migration and asylum, of vital importance for Spain, Italy, Greece and Malta, are in the first line of arrival of migrants, it would also remain blocked, as it is.

Merkel has reigned in Europe because Germany is the economic locomotive of Europe and has embodied European integration as a political fruit that is in her country of unification.

His 16 years of government are 16 years of European history

, with its lights and shadows, but hers. She was the first female Chancellor and the second longest-serving woman in power in Europe, after Britain's Margaret Thatscher. But unlike this, it has been for the Union the "mother", the candle that endured financial, social and health crises. So much so, that the Eurasia consultancy has described the end of the Merkel era as one of the main risks for the continent in 2021.

The reputation the Chancellor has built outside of Germany is fair. According to a survey carried out by the YouGov group last August,

78% of Spaniards, for example, have a good opinion of Merkel,

although after the hard years of the 2008 crisis, the percentage that described the austere Chancellor as selfish it was similar. In Denmark, Merkel's popularity is 75%, in France 67% and Sweden 64%. In the UK, however, Merkel only arouses 46% of British sympathies.

The Carlos V Prize is the

recognition of one of the main European political figures so far this century

. Ensuring the stability of Germany has given stability to the EU and therefore also a future to Spain. She carried out the Lisbon Treaty that governs the functioning of the EU since 2009 and without her some of the reforms that the now 27 club needs would not have been made.

Merkel, however, abandons the policy with the EU upside down

. The populism that brought on the 2015 refugee crisis is here to stay. The Eastern countries to which she opened the door to shore up their democratization by including them in the European project are in the hands of authoritarian governments facing Brussels. The Monetary Union remains incomplete and leaves Europe's second engine, French President Emmanuel Macron, crippled by his reluctance to support his advance proposals and that includes the common defense project (PESCO).

Regarding Merkel's Europeanism, the former president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, who knows the Chancellor well, once declared that Helmut Kohl "had Europe in his gut and sometimes in his head;

Merkel has always had Europe in the head

and sometimes it goes down to the bowels ".

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