Merkel am Ende

For a long time, the Germans truly believed that Angela Merkel was without alternatives. However, despite a phase of apparent stability, hardly anyone can now close their eyes to reality: the Chancellor has no answers to the challenges of the present. Merkel stands for nothing. She avoids conflicts instead of taking a clear stance and has no political conviction that she would not be willing to abandon at any time for the sake of retaining power. The result of 13 years of "driving by sight": Merkel will not leave behind an organized house, but rather a drained party and a country that is not strengthened for the future. Ferdinand Knauss draws a connection from Merkel's rise to power to the present and raises not only the question of what kind of party has allowed itself to be led by this woman for so long, but also what kind of society has allowed itself to be governed by her for so long.