ANGELA MERKEL
April 2012
In 1953 Thomas Mann called “not for a German Europe, but a European Germany”. Now we have both—and neither is happy
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December 2011
'The 166 countries outside the EU are at peace even though they do not belong to the EU or enjoy the benefits of the single currency'
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December 2011
The euro would never have got off the ground if it had been put to national referendums, nor would the bailouts or austerity plans
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September 2011
Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Trichet recently attended a premiere of Tannhauser in Bayreuth but their own lives are more like an operatic melodrama
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