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"Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the triangulation of German foreign policy." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2009): 27-35. Oppermann, Kai. "National role conceptions, domestic constraints and the new 'normalcy' in German foreign policy: the Eurozone crisis, Libya and beyond." German Politics 21.4 (2012): 502-519.
The euro area crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis, European debt crisis, or European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt and financial crisis that took place in the European Union (EU) from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s.
Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ⓘ; [a] née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office.
The eurozone is facing its biggest challenge since its inception. Cyprus is the second-smallest economy in the common-currency area, but the reverberations from its bailout crisis are being felt ...
This was the first Eurozone crisis since its creation in 1999. As Samuel Brittan pointed out, [6] Jason Manolopoulos "shows conclusively that the Eurozone is far from an optimum currency area". [7] Niall Ferguson also wrote in 2010 that "the sovereign debt crisis that is unfolding... is a fiscal crisis of the western world". [8]
After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful woman in the world while dealing with its most powerful men.
Alternative for Germany, or AfD, was founded in 2013 and initially focused on opposition to bailouts for struggling countries in the eurozone debt crisis — measures that then Chancellor Angela Merkel described as “without alternative.” It was sometimes known as a “party of professors,” a reference to leading figures in the early days ...
Public debt $ and %GDP (2010) for selected European countries Government debt of Eurozone, Germany and crisis countries compared to Eurozone GDP. The European sovereign debt crisis resulted from a combination of complex factors, including the globalization of finance; easy credit conditions during the 2002–08 period that encouraged high-risk lending and borrowing practices; the 2007–2008 ...