The Deception – Angela Merkel and Her Germans
Current Affairs, Politics / Economics
Failures from Merkel's 16 years in office raise questions. Here's the answer.
Germany is disappointed and Merkel's policies have failed in many fields: Russia, energy, defense, integration. The climate-friendly reconstruction of the fourth-largest economy has stalled. What looked like stability and what Germany was envied for internationally was frequently patched together.
While writing this book, Eckart Lohse talked to numerous politicians about what drove Merkel and what slowed her down. His insight: Adaptation for the sake of maintaining power shaped her government's action. She lacked the ideas to lead the country into the future.
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Eckart Lohse, born in 1963, studied Political Science, Modern History, and Romance Philology in Bonn. He wrote his dissertation in Paris and Munich about France and the division of Germany in the 1950s. He was an editor at the FAZ; and from 2003 to 2014, a leading political correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Afterwards he returned to the parliamentary editorial office of the FAZ, which he has been leading since 2018.
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Failures from Merkel's 16 years in office raise questions. Here's the answer.
Germany is disappointed and Merkel's policies have failed in many fields: Russia, energy, defense, integration. The climate-friendly reconstruction of the fourth-largest economy has stalled. What looked like stability and what Germany was envied for internationally was frequently patched together.
While writing this book, Eckart Lohse talked to numerous politicians about what drove Merkel and what slowed her down. His insight: Adaptation for the sake of maintaining power shaped her government's action. She lacked the ideas to lead the country into the future.
- Sobering but fair: For those who want more than Merkel's autobiography
- Exclusive interviews: Merkels political environment talks more openly than ever before
- The investigative report on the Merkel power apparatus