Merkel as Debt Crisis Iron Lady Bucks German Street on Greek Aid
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Angela Merkel is having a Margaret Thatcher moment.
Having spent six years in office defying comparison with Britain’s first woman prime minister, Merkel is being likened to Thatcher as she steers Europe’s response to the financial crisis with demands for debt reduction and tighter economic controls. Media including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the newspaper of record in Germany’s financial hub, dub her “Europe’s Iron Lady.”