Davos Frets Over Merkel as Refugee Crisis Tests Europe's Anchor
- Executives voicing concern German chancellor may be forced out
- Dutch finance minister warns against upper limit for refugees
Angela Merkel in Three Minutes: Who Is She?
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A world where Angela Merkel no longer occupies the German chancellery is one more risk factor that global executives are finding hard to calculate.
In closed-door meetings taking place during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, the prospect that Merkel could be forced from office over her open-door policy on refugees from the Middle East has cropped up again and again. While the political tide at home hasn’t yet turned decisively against her, executives are beginning to fret about the end of the decade-long Merkel era.