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Chancellor Angela Merkel's last dance
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Dec 6, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down after 16 years. Author and former NPR correspondent Kati Marton has written a new biography of Merkel titled, appropriately, The Chancellor. Marton told NPR's Sarah McCammon that Merkel's upbringing in East Germany before the wall fell prepared her for a future as a politician. But it also created some blind spots in her governing; allowing the far right movement, centered in former East Germany, to gain a foothold in the German Parliament.
Released:
Dec 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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