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These tendencies have gone hand in hand with the rise of populism and the far right and a form of ultra-nationalism espoused by countries such as Hungary and Poland.Inevitably, the crisis point has been reached following the earlier recession and the new straightened circumstances of Europeans who have seen levels of unparallel prosperity. This is a typical German virtue appreciated by her countrymen and women after the trauma of the Nazi period. Ms Merkel herself lived in East Germany and graduated from there, and has a sentimental thread to those living in the former East Germany.Typically, Ms Merkel has relied on common sense, rather than charisma, to build her enviable reputation as a safe pair of hands.It is a very different picture today. But the larger context she has been functioning in, in a crisis-ridden continent, has catapulted her to a position of pre-eminence to save the cherished concept of European unity.The European Union concept was buttressed by the military underpinning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).After enjoying enviable popularity as her country’s undisputed leader for her sane head and no-nonsense approach, Ms Merkel has had her own basket of problems with her open door policy towards Syrian and other refugees. Given Mr Trump’s campaign talk, that pole is less than secure, in effect bringing about a psychological trauma. The US Marshall Plan that pulled Europe out of its misery and destruction was based on the American national interest. On the China spandex fabric other hand, they are being egged on by nationalists and populists towards narrower causes. And with Britain sitting in the departure lounge of the European Union and France’s Francois Hollande wisely announcing he won’t run for the presidency again with his abysmally low popularity rating, Ms Merkel remains the only major leader left standing. The problem, however, is larger than the President-elect comprehends. Inevitably, the initial welcome turned to grumbling, given the sheer numbers involved.By a curious twist of fate, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has thrown her hat into the ring for a fourth term, has emerged as the face of liberalism and sanity in a world peopled by President-elect Donald Trump in the US and ascendant far right parties on the European continent.Obviously, the great tragedies of World War II that gave rise to idealists to bring about European unity in a shattered continent, the crowning achievement being Franco-German reconciliation, is no longer felt. Apart from taking a stricter criterion to weed out undesirables from the refugee flow, she has announced plans to bring East German pensions to West German levels by 2025. But the element of altruism and daring in undertaking the venture cannot be overlooked. It happened in the Boris Yeltsin era after the collapse of the Soviet Union.Ms Merkel’s giant size task is therefore cut out for her. The one silver lining is that Mr Trump is looking at relations with Russia with fresh eyes and is impressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership qualities. This is particularly true of countries like Poland and the Baltic states that consider themselves vulnerable to Russian pressure |
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