Angela Merkel (II) - various reports
Angela Merkel's biggest fan is a Greek restaurant owner in Bremerhaven. He has now even commissioned a wax replica of the Chancellor.
Angela Merkel has been celebrated over the last 16 years as a global leader in combating climate change. In Germany, however, her record as a climate chancellor is mixed. As she reaches the end of her time in charge, we ask what Chancellor Merkel has done on climate policy – and where has she come up short. We examine how the world’s most powerful woman pushed for more climate action globally while giving in to the interests of Germany’s mighty car companies – and has tried to catch up on climate action in her final years in office.
From a token woman in East Germany to the leader of the free world. After four terms, or sixteen years, in office, that same Angela Merkel is stepping aside as German chancellor. So, what will her legacy be? Does she leave behind a Germany more united, or more divided? What are her greatest achievements? And her biggest mistakes? Above all, perhaps: who is the real Angela Merkel and how has she survived so long? Our guests: the Merkel biographers Ursula Weidenfeld, Ralph Bollmann and Andreas Rinke.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in Turkey on her last official visit to the country before she leaves office. Merkel held talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. High on the agenda was how to help Afghans trying to escape the Taliban. The two leaders also discussed human rights and Turkey's prospects of European Union membership.