For Merkel, It’s Time to Play the Tough Guy
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the Bundestag in Berlin on March 25.
Photographer: Stefanie Loos/AFP?Getty Images
Angela Merkel is losing her patience.
Gone is the calm, the poise and the consistency that has defined so much of the German Chancellor’s persona: a political veteran who saw through a euro crisis, a refugee emergency and stoically endured the Donald Trump era.