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Merkel named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
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Time magazine yesterday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its “Person of the Year 2015”, hailing her leadership for navigating debt and refugee crises that threatened to tear the European Union apart.
“For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is Time’s Person of the Year,” wrote editor Nancy Gibbs.
Time described her as de facto EU leader who this year steered it through two existential crises — Greek bankruptcy and the migrant crisis.
Throughout the eurozone crisis, when a battered continent looked to Berlin, Merkel preached fiscal discipline and kept a tight grip on the nation’s purse strings, soothing the angst of a thrifty populace.
But it was this summer that the usually cautious leader took the biggest gamble of her decade in power by throwing open Germany’s doors to asylum seekers — owning an issue set to define her legacy.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State group, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, America’s Black Lives Matter activists campaigning against inequality and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani were named by Time as runners up.
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