With every blunder from Chancellor Friedrich Merz, longing for the purported good, old days of Angela Merkel grows in Germany. Many miss her tone, her presence. Has Germany's Queen Mum noticed?
Maybe it’s because I’m a foreigner living in Germany, but from what I gather few people really want to see her back in power. If anything, it’s more of a longing for a bygone era where stability and the international set of rules many had grown up with still applied.
Personally I believe her reign was one of the worst things to happen to Germany in my lifetime. For 16 years nothing really changed, unless her hand was forced. One of the very few unambiguously positive and lasting changes during her reign was marriage equality - which she personally voted against in parliament.
@jjpamsterdam i believe this is just why some people have this rose-tinted view of her.
Germans are afraid of change - unless they have been exposed to actual cultural exchange (No, ten days Ballermann doesn’t count) - and call it stability in order to give it a positive twist.
Maybe it’s because I’m a foreigner living in Germany, but from what I gather few people really want to see her back in power. If anything, it’s more of a longing for a bygone era where stability and the international set of rules many had grown up with still applied.
Personally I believe her reign was one of the worst things to happen to Germany in my lifetime. For 16 years nothing really changed, unless her hand was forced. One of the very few unambiguously positive and lasting changes during her reign was marriage equality - which she personally voted against in parliament.
@jjpamsterdam i believe this is just why some people have this rose-tinted view of her.
Germans are afraid of change - unless they have been exposed to actual cultural exchange (No, ten days Ballermann doesn’t count) - and call it stability in order to give it a positive twist.
Merkel gave them/us just that - inertia.