Sun Begins to Set on Merkel’s Powerful Reign Over Europe
SputnikNews.com
26.01.2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is becoming increasingly isolated within Europe as well as within her own party as the EU struggles to cope with the refugee crisis and limps from panic to panic within the Eurozone.
Merkel celebrated ten years as Chancellor last year and has been the leader of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) for 16 years. During that time, she has dominated EU politics and enjoyed considerable popular support at home. She was seen as unassailable.
Yet today she stands an increasingly lonely figure – both within Germany and the EU. She became Germany’s first female Chancellor at the head of a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the subsequent two general elections, she consolidated her position.
Now, however, she is increasingly marginalized. Her Bavarian sister party, the CSU is led by Horst Seehofer, who has been severely critical of Merkel’s ‘open doors’ policy on refugees. His southern German state has borne the brunt of the refugees flowing through Hungary and Austria having used the West Balkan route to fell Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and refugee camps in neighboring states.
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