What Germany’s election bumps may mean for the E.U.
ON FEB. 10, ANNEGRET Kramp-Karrenbauer, the head of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU)—and presumptive heir to the chancellorship—announced that she would be resigning as party leader, a position she narrowly won just over a year ago. AKK, as she is known, was Merkel’s preferred successor; the announcement marks the true end of the Merkel era. That should worry Europe a lot more than it does Germany.
AKK’s short tenure as head of the
