At the chancellery, he is someone who never pushed himself into the foreground or sought the media spotlight but tried to get positions with consensus from the various ministries. |
But he is certainly a very reliable manager. |
I'm not a friend of that explanation. Yes, tradition and history and all these things play a role, and there is a revolutionary tradition in France and not in Germany, and all that. |
That could well be a quality which is to his advantage in the grand coalition. |
There are several issues on which Washington should not fool itself - a Merkel government would take the same stance on (the) Kyoto (Protocol on global warming) and the environment as well on as the International Criminal Court. |