Cinderella Became the Empress. How Merkel Has Changed Germany
Cinderella Became the Empress. How Merkel Has Changed Germany

Author(s): Anna Kwiatkowska
Subject(s): National Economy, Energy and Environmental Studies, Political history, Labor relations, Environmental and Energy policy, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Economic development, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: OSW Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia
Keywords: Angela Merkel; Germany; energy transformation; labour market; Chancellor; German political scene;
Summary/Abstract: Angela Merkel’s career was a phenomenon on the German political scene. At the turn of the twentieth and twenty‑first centuries, it was unimaginable that a woman from Eastern Germany, an academic, though without a degree in law, relatively young, childless, remarried, could lead a government on behalf of the Christian Democrats and, in addition, hold this position for the next 16 years.

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