British "Telegraph": Merkel left behind a "fragile state"

Prominent German politicians hail Merkel: She was a good luck for our country

Merkel was distinguished by the analytical skills through which she was exposed to social changes and tendencies earlier than others.

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A group of prominent German politicians has praised the outgoing German chancellor, Angela Merkel.

The former president of the German parliament, "Bundestag" Wolfgang Schaeuble, and the outgoing Federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, described Angela Merkel as a prominent politician, and a lucky stroke for Germany.

"It was a good fortune for our country," Schaeuble wrote about Merkel in an article in the German weekly Bild am Sonntag, in its issue issued yesterday.

Seehofer, who is still a minister in the caretaker government until a new federal government is formed in Germany, described her as "a player of exceptional political forces", and wrote to the same German newspaper: "She did her job with incredible precision and perseverance.

I have almost never met someone of her type in the past 50 years in politics.”

Schaeuble praised "Merkel's analytical skills, through which I got to know social changes and tendencies earlier than others, and not only within my party."

It should be noted that Schäuble belongs to the Christian Democratic Party, to which Merkel belongs, and she also headed it for a long time.

Schäuble had also held the posts of former interior minister and finance minister under Merkel.

Schaeuble added that Merkel's balanced political style, "perhaps her most important personal advantage", contributed to gaining trust between neighbors and partners.

For his part, Sigmar Gabriel, who previously held the position of Merkel's deputy and foreign minister in her government, and also chaired the Social Democratic Party, told the newspaper editorial network in Germany that the country remained stable under Merkel's presidency of the chancellorship for 16 years, in light of a period that witnessed many crises.

"This is a great achievement for this chancellor, who has written a positive chapter in German history," Gabriel added.

For its part, the British newspaper, The Telegraph, wrote yesterday about the 16-year tenure of Angela Merkel as chancellor.

It is true that Merkel remains popular in Germany, but with a series of mistakes and an astonishing self-admiration for her government, not only has Merkel transformed her once-dominant conservative party into a shadow of her own, and that she She handed over power to a left-leaning coalition, dominated by socialists and the Greens, but also within her legacy that her country and her continent are fragile in the face of authoritarian regimes on the doorstep.

Nothing is more evident than the case of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, across the Baltic Sea.

Operations of the pipeline are currently suspended until an official examination takes place, but the fact that this project has been considered in the first place illustrates the lack of principles that have long defined German foreign policy under Merkel.”

Germany claims to be a "good European," but has blatantly ignored the fears of allies such as Poland that the pipeline might give Russian President Vladimir Putin more possibilities to use gas exports as a weapon of threat.

• Merkel turned her conservative party into her shadow, handing over power to a left-leaning coalition dominated by the Socialists and the Greens.

Also included in her legacy is that her country and her continent are fragile in the face of authoritarian regimes on the doorstep.

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