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It’s Angela with a hard ‘g’ for the Chancellor with the hard line. She not only runs Europe’s true powerhouse economy; she has done so since 2005 making her the EU’s longest serving elected head of state. Merkel has vowed to squeeze Russia with sanctions over Ukraine. She broke the postwar taboo of German involvement in military actions by arming Kurdish Peshmerga fighter against ISIS. Her reflection of the deep German aversion to debt drove her to almost single-handedly imposing harsh austerity measures on stumbling economies like Greece.She has taken Germany into the leadership role in Europe that its economic muscle would dictate.
