German Ex-Leader Draws Sharp Distinction Between Obama And Trump In New Memoir
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Angela Merkel recalled one awkward exchange with Donald Trump when she mistakenly acted "as if I were dealing with an interlocutor behaving normally."
BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin’s “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit, in her memoirs published Tuesday.
Merkel, 70, appears to have no significant doubts about the major decisions of her 16 years as German leader, whose major challenges included the global financial crisis, Europe’s debt crisis, the 2015-16 influx of refugees and the COVID-19 pandemic. True to form, her book — titled “Freedom” — offers a matter-of-fact account of her early life in communist East Germany and her later career in politics, laced with moments of dry wit.
Merkel served alongside four U.S. presidents, four French presidents and five British prime ministers. But it is perhaps her dealings with Russian President Putin that have drawn the most scrutiny since she left office in late 2021.
Putin’s power games
Merkel recalls being kept waiting by Putin at the Group of Eight summit she hosted in 2007 — “if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s unpunctuality.” And she recounts a visit to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi that year in which Putin’s labrador appeared during a photo opportunity, although Putin knew she was afraid of dogs.
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