Women, Power & Leadership

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In foreign policy, Merkel has emphasised international cooperation, both in the context of the EU and NATO, and strengthening transatlantic economic relations. In 2008, Merkel served as President of the European Council and played a central role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Berlin Declaration. Merkel played a crucial role in managing the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the European debt crisis. She negotiated the 2008 European Union stimulus plan focusing on infrastructure spending and public investment to counteract the Great Recession. In domestic policy, Merkel's Energiewende program has focused on future energy development, seeking to phase out nuclear power in Germany, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and increase renewable energy sources. Reforms to the Bundeswehr which abolished conscription, health care reform, and her government's response to the 2010s European migrant crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany were major issues during her chancellorship. She served as the senior G7 leader from 2011 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2021. In 2014, she became the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the EU. In October 2018, Merkel announced that she would stand down as Leader of the CDU at the party convention, and would not seek a fifth term as chancellor in the 2021 federal election. In 2022, Merkel condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

International status

Angela Merkel's tenure as Chancellor compared to heads of government in the EU and UK
Merkel was widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union throughout her tenure as Chancellor. Merkel was twice named the world's second most powerful person, following Vladimir Putin, by Forbes magazine, the highest ranking ever achieved by a woman. On 26 March 2014, Merkel became the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the European Union. In December 2015, Merkel was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year, with the magazine's cover declaring her to be the "Chancellor of the Free World". In 2018, Merkel was named the most powerful woman in the world for a record fourteenth time by Forbes. Following the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency in 2016, Merkel was described by The New York Times as "the Liberal West's Last Defender", and by a number of commentators as the "leader of the free world". Specifically, Politico called Merkel the "leader of the free world" when reporting on her meeting with President Trump. Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described Merkel in 2017 as "the most important leader in the free world". The Atlantic described her in 2019 as "the world's most successful living politician, on the basis of both achievement and longevity". She was found in a 2018 survey to be the most respected world leader internationally. She was named as Harvard University's commencement speaker in 2019; Harvard University President Larry Bacow described her as "one of the most widely admired and broadly influential statespeople of our time". When Merkel retired as Chancellor, Hillary Clinton wrote that "she led Europe through difficult times with steadiness and bravery, and for four long years, she was the leader of the free world."

High hopes you have, my contention is that you better hope the system works well. Women are the average of things as they are there'll be no more revolutions and little in the way of reform, that's just it your society in its final state so you better hope it's a good one. The average of things as they are will be the end of competition and of change in a monopolistic world.

So yes you must be content with the average of things as they are. If you're a Russian who likes Putin you're more likely to be a woman, if you're a western who likes metoo you're more likely a woman, if you're anywhere and want to shame the unvaccinated then you're more likely to be a woman. If you are content with the average of things as they are

And religion too of course. You're more likely to believe in a god if you're a woman, and even if it's an atheist much more likely to be that spiders webs and magic type of atheism. Believing in god is a fairy tale, but the power of crystal skulls are divine. Where irreligion is the norm the woman becomes spiritual but not religious. Less interested in how things actually work and there's a reason why. Thanks Angela for rendering Europe dependent on Russian gas and the daughters of generation Merkel are even more girly and silly. Once the women are liberated they're less rational than before. The stress of necessity used to force everyone to be more realistic. Once the stress of necessity goes men and women become even more Venus and Mars, less of the down to earth.