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.