Angela Merkel

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Merkel between the flags of Germany (left) and the European Union (EU)
For more on Merkel's destructive immigration policies, see European migrant crisis

Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel (born July 17, 1954) was elected in March 2018 to her fourth term as the chancellor of Germany, the top position for a broad coalition government. From 2000 to 2018 she was also the leader of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), historically Germany's conservative party. She has served as the chancellor of Germany since 2005, a position comparable to prime minister. She is a champion of the euro and of the mass migration of Middle Eastern and North African refugees to Europe.[1]

Early life

Angela Dorthea Kasner Merkel was born in Hamburg but three years later he family moved to Templin, Brandenburg in East Germany. Her father, Horst Kasner, was a Protestant pastor who had studied theology at Heidelberg University. Her mother, Herlind, was an English and Latin teacher. The Kasner family was increased when Angela's brother Marcus was born in 1957 and her sister Irene in 1964.

Career

Merkel grew up in the Communist East Germany just outside Berlin. Merkel was educated in Templin and at the University of Leipzig, where she studied physics (1973-1978).

She worked and studied at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences (1978–1990). After graduating with a doctorate in physics working in quantum chemistry. In 1989 she became involved in the growing democracy movement and, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she got a job as government spokesperson following the first democratic elections. She joined the CDU two months before German reunification and within three months she was in Helmut Kohl's cabinet as minister for women and youth. In 1994 she was made minister for the environment.

Her East German background has stood her in good stead. For the first 36 years of her life, she honed her skills at covering up or suppressing her feelings—essential in a society where practically every room contained a Stasi informer, especially if you were a pastor's daughter. Speaking near perfect English and remarking on her background as an Ossi she says, "Anyone who really has something to say doesn't need make-up".

German chancellor

2005 election

Exit polls from Sept. 2009 election won by the conservative coalition CDU and FDP

Merkel was first elected as chancellor of Germany in 2005. She ruled together with the left-center SPD until 2009.[2]

2009 election

The September 2009 election was a major win for the right-of-center forces led by Chancellor Merkel, breaking a stalemate and opening the way for more conservative economic policies. Previously since an indecisive election in 2005 the center-right Christian Democrats formed a "grand coalition" with the center-left Social Democrats, headed by Frank-Walter Steinmeier. 2009 Merkel and her CDU formed a coalition with the liberal Free Democrats. Left in the cold was the Greens, and the ex-Communists who remain strong under the name "The Left." Merkel moved forward on tax cuts, reform of the tax code, reduction of bureaucracy and an extension of the time that nuclear power plants can continue to operate.

The victory enhanced her reputation as Europe's top political power broker, as Merkel became the first leader of a major European country to win re-election since the global financial crisis struck the previous year. Voters generally approved of her response to the recession, even though it hammered Germany's export-dependent economy and resulted in a huge amount of public debt. She countered criticism by blaming the crisis on Wall Street and engaging in a modest stimulus program.[3]

2013 election

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was hacked by the Obama administration.

In the 2013 election, the CDU remained Germany's strongest party, but its ally the FDP lost the election and left the parliament.[4] Thus, the CDU created a "grand coalition" with the SPD again.[5] The vice chancellor is Sigmar Gabriel, the chairman of the SPD.[6]

In 2013 Der Spiegel reported that U.S. president Barack Obama personally approved wiretapping Merkel's cell phone conversations.[7]

2017 election

In a campaign described as "boring", Merkel saw a challenge by the SPD's left-wing Martin Schulz, the former president of the European Parliament. Merkel was seen by some commentators to have subtly tacked towards the right on some policies such as migration and Turkey's accession to the EU – two issues she formerly was wholeheartedly in support of. In the election, the right-wing conservative Alternative for Germany entered the Bundestag after taking a historic third place with nearly 13% of the vote, while Merkel's CDU received its worst result since 1949.[8] Despite this, Merkel continued defending her open borders policies.[9] Merkel had trouble creating a government, with the Social Democrats initially refusing to work with her in a coalition and with the Greens and FDP being unable to agree together with the CDU. In February 2018, Merkel reached an agreement with the Social Democrats that gave the latter party a disproportionate amount of influence in her government.[10] Six months after the election, the German Bundestag voted to give Merkel a fourth term as chancellor with her "grand coalition" with the SPD.[11]

In the 2019 European Parliament elections, the German coalition parties performed very poorly.[12]

Policies

Merkel supports liberal and globalist policies. She allowed her party members a free vote for legalizing same-sex "marriage". In June 2017, the German parliament voted for legalizing it, including some MPs from Merkel's party, although she herself voted against it.[13] Her nation harshly opposes homeschooling. She supports the socialist and globalist European Union and open borders. Her left-wing policies contributed significantly to the European migrant crisis. Merkel opposes patriotic policies, such as building border walls and advancing protectionism, opposes populism, and supports globalism.[14] In November 2018, Merkel called for a common EU army.[15] Merkel has spoken out against free speech rights.[16]

Merkel supports the erosion of national sovereignty, stating in 2018 that "nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty."[17] In January 2019, Merkel's defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, effectively called for using NATO to put suppress those who oppose the globalist world order.[18] Merkel has made other statements opposing nationalism.[19]

Merkel fears that the European Union has failed to define its common interests "for the (commercial) battles of the future" now Europe's cold war priorities of keeping "peace and freedom" have been achieved. "This is where I think Europe needs to learn a lot, not to concentrate too much on whether bicycle paths are built the same way in Portugal and north-west Germany." Domestically, Merkel recognizes the need for change in the country's consensual model. "In Germany, we are always facing the danger that we are a little bit too slow. We have to speed up our changes."

Migration policy

Because of Merkel's open borders policies, more than 2.5 million refugees and migrants have flooded into Germany from outside Europe, migrants who do not share a common European heritage with their host country. In 2015 alone, Germany was invaded by nearly one million non-Western immigrants,[20] more than double the size of Germany's standing and reserve military force. Merkel opposed setting an upper limit on the number of refugees Germany would allow in annually.[21] It was reported in August 2017 that since 2015, when the European migrant crisis was at its height, the German Prosecutor's Office received over 1,000 criminal complaints accusing Merkel of high treason for her actions regarding refugees and immigration.[22] This represented a massive visible shift in her policies since 2010, when she actually stated that a multicultural society had failed and that immigrants needed to do more to integrate, including learning German.[23] Merkel continued defending her actions even several years afterward.[24]

When discussing her options on how to counter the migrant crisis in 2015, Merkel quickly dismissed the notion of restoring border controls.[25]

When the German Minister of Interior Horst Seehofer stated that Islam "does not belong in Germany,"[26][27] Merkel quickly responded by saying that "Islam belongs to Germany."[28][29] Merkel's globalist views on immigration and unwillingness to compromise conflicted with the relatively conservative views of Seehofer, something which endangered the coalition she created after the 2017 elections.[30] Ultimately, they found a compromise which saw Merkel gain the upper hand.[31]

Merkel continued advancing policies increasing the number of migrants into Germany.[32] She strongly endorsed the UN's migration compact that conservative leaders rejected.[33][34] Under Merkel's government, Germany tried to send the highest number of migrants to other EU countries.[35] Merkel has stated that countries such as Hungary and Poland should give up control of their own borders.[36]

Foreign relations

Merkel failed to stand up for Western values as German Chancellor and allowed Germany to become dependent on Russian energy.[37]

In 2011 Merkel opposed Israel's settlement program in the West Bank[38] and rejects moving Germany's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.[39] She even told other EU leaders not to move their embassies[40] and urged Romania's President Klaus Iohannis to stop the planned relocation of Romania's embassy to Jerusalem.[41] After President Trump decided to leave the Iran nuclear deal, Merkel explained that this deal "should never be called into question" and wanted Iran to remain in it.[42]

In January 2019, Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron prepared to sign a treaty further eroding the national sovereignty of both countries and tying them closer together.[43]

Merkel was an unreliable ally to countries such as the United States.[44]

Minsk accords duplicity

See also: Maidan regime and Donbas war

In an interview with Die Zeit magazine in 2022 Merkel confirmed the Western alliance's duplicity in using the Minsk Accords in 2014 and 2015 to buy time for the NATOization of Ukraine to use as a battering ram for the destruction of the Russian Federation.[45]

Merkel described the September 2014 Minsk agreement which France and Germany had brokered a ceasefire after the failure of Kiev regime’s attempt to subdue the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk by force.

Angela Merkel's revelation about Minsk Agreements.[46]
“I thought that the introduction of NATO accession of Ukraine and Georgia, discussed in 2008, was wrong. The countries did not have the necessary prerequisites for this, nor was it fully understood what the consequences of such a decision would have been, both with regard to Russia’s actions against Georgia and Ukraine, as well as NATO and its rules of assistance. And the Minsk Agreement of 2014 was an attempt to give Ukraine time.

Ukraine used this time to become stronger, as you can see today. The Ukraine of 2014/15 is not the Ukraine of today. An illustrative example was the battle for Debaltseve. At the beginning of 2015, Putin could easily have overrun them at that time. And I very much doubt that the NATO countries could have done as much then as they do today to help Ukraine.”[47]

Due to the bad faith and duplicity Merkel confessed to, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin demanded reparations from Germany and France to be paid to the people of Donbas.[48] Russian Foreign Ministry said Merkel's words may be used in denazification tribunals as evidence of crimes against peace by the NATO powers.[49] Former French president Francois Hollande, an accomplice in the duplicity, corroborated Merkel's account.[50]

Relations with Donald Trump

In October 2015, Donald Trump criticized Merkel's migration policy: "I love a safe zone for people. I do not like the migration. I do not like the people coming. Frankly, look, Europe is going to have to handle – but they're going to have riots in Germany. What's happening in Germany, I always thought Merkel was like this great leader. What she's done in Germany is insane. It is insane. They're having all sorts of attacks."[51] In April 2018, President Trump emphasized that he has a "really great relationship" with Chancellor Merkel. According to him they both "actually have had a great relationship from the beginning."[52] On November 11, 2018, Merkel joined globalist French president Emmanuel Macron in attacking nationalism and President Trump's America First foreign policy.[53] In July 2019, Merkel publicly opposed statements criticizing several far-left members of the U.S. House for their anti-American statements, with Merkel stating she identified with them.[54]

See also

Further reading

  • Clifford W. Mills. Angela Merkel (2007), 120pp; for middle schools
  • Wolfgang Stock: Angela Merkel: eine politische Biographie. Neuauflage. München 2005, ISBN 3-7892-8168-9

References

  1. Milton Friedman detailed the disadvantages of the euro in "The Euro: Monetary Unity To Political Disunity?"
  2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10518099/Germanys-Social-Democrats-vote-to-form-grand-coalition-with-Angela-Merkel.html
  3. Craig Whitlock, "Germany's Merkel Reelected Easily, Will Form New Coalition," Washington Post Sept. 28, 2009
  4. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/merkel-bidding-3rd-term-german-election
  5. https://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/27/merkel-conservatives-center-left-rivals-reach-deal-to-form-new-german/
  6. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/merkel-backs-plans-stem-energy-cost-rises
  7. https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/17/flashback-barack-obama-wiretapped-german-chancellor-angela-merkel-in-2010/ <
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  9. Merkel Defends Open Borders Migrant Policy After Election Shock. Breitbart News. September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  10. Joffe, Josef (February 9, 2018). Angela’s Merkel government of losers. Politico. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
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  12. Moulson, Geir (May 27, 2019). Greens surge as German governing parties perform poorly. Associated Press. May 27, 2019.
  13. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-same-sex-marriage-vote-germany-legalisation-lgbt-rights-christian-democrat-man-woman-a7815846.html
  14. Deacon, Liam (January 24, 2018). Merkel at Davos: Attacks ‘Walls’ and ‘Poison’ of Populism, Defends Globalism. Breitbart News. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
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  16. Montgomery, Jack (November 30, 2019). ‘Freedom of Expression Has Its Limits!’ – Merkel Rails Against Free Speech. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
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  18. Newman, Alex (January 21, 2019). German Defense Chief: Unleash NATO on Opponents of “World Order”. The New American. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
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  20. The New Europeans, Robert Kunzig, National Geographic, October 2016
  21. Delcker, Janosch (October 2, 2017). Angela Merkel’s new refugee dilemma. Politico. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  22. Tomlinson, Chris (August 31, 2017). Prosecutors Have Rejected 1,000 High Treason Charges Against Merkel For Migrant Crisis Since 2015. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  23. (October 17, 2010). Merkel says German multicultural society has failed. BBC. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  24. Hale, Virginia (May 2, 2019). Opening the Borders ‘Not a Mistake’: Merkel Defends Migrant Crisis Decisions. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  25. Hale, Virginia (September 25, 2018). ‘We Won’t Build Any Fences’: Interview Reveals Merkel’s Reaction to 2015 Migrant Crisis. Breitbart News. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
  26. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43422770
  27. Huggler, Justin (March 16, 2018). German interior minister declares 'Islam does not belong' in the country. The Telegraph. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  28. Hale, Virginia (March 16, 2018). ‘Islam Belongs to Germany’, Merkel Insists After Minister Highlights Nation’s Christian Heritage. Breitbart News. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  29. Merkel contradicts interior minister, saying ‘Islam belongs to Germany’. The Local. March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
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  32. Byas, Steve (October 3, 2018). Germany’s Merkel Favors Even More Immigrants. The New American. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  33. Hale, Virginia (November 21, 2018). ‘No Compromises’: Merkel Launches Passionate Defence of UN Migration Pact. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  34. Friedman, Victoria (December 10, 2018). Merkel Hails UN Migration Pact Le Pen Says Would ‘Forever Change’ France. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  35. Friedman, Victoria (December 7, 2018). Germany Most Prolific at Attempting to Send Migrants to Other EU Countries. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  36. Montgomery, Jack (March 1, 2019). Merkel: Hungary, Poland, Etc Must Surrender Control Over Borders to EU. Breitbart News. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  37. Rogan, Tom (November 12, 2018). Macron, Merkel, and why international order remains the American preserve. Washington Examiner. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  38. Weiland, Severin. Merkel and Netanyahu Seek to Play Down Differences Der Spiegel. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  39. Berkowitz, Adam Eliyahu. Germany’s Merkel: No to Jerusalem Embassy, No to ‘Settlements,’ Yes to Iran Nuclear Deal BreakingIsraelNews. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  40. Tomlinson, Chris (December 7, 2018). Merkel Told EU Leaders to Not Move Embassies to Jerusalem. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  41. Weinthal, Benjamin. Exclusive: Merkel Urged Romanian President to Not Move Embassy to Jerusalem Jerusalem Post. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  42. (May 9, 2018). Iran nuclear deal ‘should never be called into question’, says Merkel thelocal.de. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  43. Friedman, Victoria (January 10, 2019). Merkel and Macron Pool Defence, Foreign Policy in Prototype ‘Sovereign Europe’. Breitbart News. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
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  44. Rogan, Tom (July 31, 2019). Germany reminds the world it's an awful ally. Washington Examiner. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
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  45. Angela Merkel's revelation about Minsk Agreements, Amit Sengupta, December 14, 2022.
  46. https://youtu.be/0-57KOwG9co
  47. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/merkel:-minsk-agreement-attempted-to-give-ukraine-time
  48. https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1601462487374626816
  49. https://youtu.be/TfAJu_ew9Ms
  50. https://www.voltairenet.org/article218584.html
  51. Keneally, Meghan (July 6, 2017). What Trump and Merkel have said about each other ABC News. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  52. Fredericks, Bob (April 27, 2018). Trump praises ‘great relationship’ with Merkel during White House visit New York Post. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  53. Re, Gregg (November 11, 2018). Trump, speaking at Armistice Day event outside Paris, honors fallen soldiers as Macron, Merkel take shots at him. Fox News. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  54. Multiple references: