The 8 places you hardly knew made Angela Merkel who she is today
She became Germany’s first woman chancellor and its first from the east. She stood up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and, during the Greek debt crisis, against pooling countries’ debt.
(Bloomberg) She became Germany’s first woman chancellor and its first from the east. She stood up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and, during the Greek debt crisis, against pooling countries’ debt.
She began her professional life as a physicist and stands to become one of only three postwar chancellors elected to a fourth term. Behind all that is a life story that stretches around the world, including some surprising places and some character-forging events.
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