Has Angela Merkel saved Europe?

Pierre Bocev, French correspondent in Berlin, praises Angela Merkel's masterful bluff. On June 22, while Warsaw was blocking negotiations in Brussels, the Chancellor threatened to negotiate without the Polish team. "The affair could have turned bad. It could have finished the international reputation of Angela Merkel, who has skipped from success to success since her rise to power in November 2005. Her contribution to the European budgetary compromise one month later. Her widely hailed first meetings with George W. Bush or Vladimir Putin. Her double victory in March 2007 to convince the twenty seven [countries of the EU] to agree to concrete objectives in the fight against global warming and, two months later at the G8 summit, to convince the American president to more or less sign-up. All this cannot be underestimated. The Chancellor would be back in line rather than continuing forward on her cloud."

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