Time magazine praised “her resilience and leadership when faced with the Syrian refugee crisis and turmoil in the European Union over its currency this year”. But now the prospect of Greek bankruptcy threatened the very existence of the euro zone.
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Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert welcomed Time’s choice and said: “I am sure the chancellor will cherish this as an incentive in her job”.
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Merkel is only the fourth woman to be named Time’s Person of the Year (formerly “Man of the Year”). “No other major Western leader grew up in a stockade, which gave Merkel a rare perspective on the lure of freedom and the risks people will take to taste it”.
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Runners-up on the list include ISIS’s Bakr al-Baghdadi (2nd), the Black Lives Matter Protest Movement (4th), president of Iran Hassan Rouhani (5th), Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick (6th), and Caitlyn Jenner (7th). Amazingly, this is the first time in almost 30 years that a woman has earned the title. She became involved in politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany in 1989. Trump said he had respected her but added, “She blew it, when she allowed this to happen, this migration”.
Donald Trump, who was actually on the cover of Time in August, took the news as an opportunity to disparage Merkel’s leadership on Twitter.
It’s been a big year for Merkel, one which included wrangling Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, helping refugees from the Middle East and not budging on Greece’s economic crisis.
Mr Trump was not pleased at being overlooked, tweeting immediately afterwards to accuse Mrs Merkel of “ruining” Germany.
FILE – In this Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, file photo, German Chancellor and chairwoman of the Christian Democrats, CDU, Angela Merkel, thanks delegates for their standing ovations after her speech at the party convention in Cologne, Germany.
Time’s managing editor explained the reasoning behind the decision.
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