After eight years in office, Merkel’s leadership can no longer be described as a fluke or an accident, as some thought at first. Her very dullness, her middle-aged-frumpiness and her lack of emotion must actually represent something that Germans want: leadership without drama. It’s not just that she’s a “safe pair of hands”; Merkel provokes no jealousy, no anxiety and no fear, either in Germany or in Germany’s immediate neighborhood.
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