How Germany's Angela Merkel has stayed in power for so long | UNPACKED
21 ਨਵੰਬਰ 2020
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Many people don't remember a Germany that wasn't run by Angela Merkel. Germans go to the polls again in late 2021, and Angela Merkel has already announced she won't run again. With no clear successor, a power vacuum is brewing in Berlin. The coming months will determine Merkel's legacy, and the future of Germany and Europe. So how did she get to where she is? How did she manage to stay in power for so long?
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Perhaps how education/immigration policies might change and affect non-EU students
you really think that's her last dance? let's wait for some time.
@/ Lobskute / nächstes Jahr wird Deutschland eine Ruine sein!
@Abel Ioan Popa nächstes Jahr wird dann sowieso jemand anders Kanzler sein. Dann bist du hoffentlich glücklich.
@Ich Mantel so lange dieses Land von eine ex STASISekretärin regiert wird dann wird es immer schlimmer!
Great nation i will love too meet German nation ⚡
She's part of the elite (bilderberg group) or she's a good puppet for the elite!!!
Who else went here from Ego is the Enemy?
Beautifull words, it is very encourageing to see that you reach out to the people and that your words are felt. I pray that you will experience this great peace, joy, love, strength and wholeness which is being felt within from many people. Theres a shifting in the globe and all your efforts and hard work will improve lives and help families to get back to a normal routine and to be of courage to return to work and education. Wishing you all the happiness and miracles its so uplifting to see as a leader and female that you really do send out a message of love and concern for the people which is very unique bless you so encouraged to do more 🌹
Beatlemania hairdo works for her.
Thatcher ain't got nothing on this Iron Lady.
Sie hat ein Recht dummes Volk, was sich alles gefallen ist. Das ist alles
Because world war never happened
اگر حالم خوب بشه زبان آلمانی رو سریع می گیرم حالم خوب نیست
Destroyed German culture and general level of happiness. Integration with Africa & Middle East has been catastrophic.
You probably don’t have even know German culture
You are wrong
Read comedy of coffin on kindle written by Avijit Kabiraj. Introduction: It's a tale of two jobless boys, who were offered a job by the mafia boss that they can't refuse, their job is to bury a dead chef..
The likeable barometer chemically kick because skiing coincidently preach but a dead passenger. plastic, new paint
What power? Why do you write idiotic statements like that. There is no power with her, she is just a speaker for her employers. Just stop with this absurdity!
@Aleksandar I. You don't know what you're talking about.
@M. R I pray that God sheds some light into your troubled mind.
Sure 😂😂😂
Sees got a podcast on Spotify now
Best to be center than be left or right
how i wish we had a boring leader
She’s been in power since I was 10 years old wow. Because of her the euro stays strong ! What a great politician! I hope the US gets a women president that’s just as political savvy as her ! Aka AOC;)
Some feedback: It's okay to smile :) And it's very obvious that you're reading from a script, maybe read the lines a little faster. The content of the video was great though!
The amount of Germans I’ve met who have left their country because of this lady. Only a few people hold office for this long, Robert Mugabe, Vladimir Putin, etc etc
We’d be so lost without her..
shows how politics dont have to be like reality tv shows
Well, you forgot to mention the attacks on Köln (Cologne) which was one of the reasons for such uproar against her radical pro-immigration policy
She's just dictator
Yeah sure. :D
She's the good Vladimir Putin of Germany
there are many things wrong in this video, like that you need 50% of all seats to build the goverment and more things
She has destroyed the EU. No feeling for Europe, only for German interests. A long disaster specially with the Pandemic.
3:10 You're serious? Greens are economically neoliberal and only culturally left and should be atleast the same height as SPD. More accurate would be a political compass. FDP is further to the right aswell.
This reporter makes me think of beedle from the legend of Zelda.
Nnkk
This woman is the perfect leader
Shouldn’t the FDP be more right than the CDU/CSU? And where is AFD on the scale?
Merkel's Hungarian dictatorship is funded by that important thing
an ordinary puppet
Der deutsche Bauer verelendet, der Mittelstand ruiniert, die sozialen Hoffnungen vieler Millionen Menschen vernichtet, ein Drittel aller im Erwerbsleben stehenden deutschen Männer und Frauen ohne Arbeit und damit ohne Verdienst, das Reich, die Kommunen und die Länder überschuldet, sämtliche Finanzen in Unordnung und alle Kassen leer. Was hätten sie überhaupt noch mehr zerstören können. Das schlimmste aber ist die Vernichtung des Vertrauens in unserem Volk, die Beseitigung aller Hoffnungen und aller Zuversicht. In 13 Jahren ist es ihnen nicht gelungen, die in unserem Volk schlummernden Kräfte irgendwie zu mobilisieren. Im Gegenteil. In ihrer Angst vor dem Erwachen der Nation, haben sie die Menschen gegeneinander ausgespielt, die Stadt gegen das Land, den Angestellten gegen den Beamten, den Handarbeiter gegen den Arbeiter der Stirne, den Bayern gegen den Preußen, den Katholiken gegen den Protestanten uns so fort und umgekehrt. Der Aktivismus unserer Rasse wurde nur im Inneren verbraucht, nach außen aber blieben Phantasien übrig, phantastische Hoffnungen auf Kulturgewissen, Völkerrecht, Weltgewissen, Botschafterkonferenzen, Völkerbund, Zweite Internationale, Dritte Internationale, proletarische Solidarität und so weiter, und die Welt hat uns dementsprechend behandelt. So ist Deutschland langsam verfallen und nur ein Wahnsinniger kann hoffen, daß die Kräfte, die erst den Verfall herbeiführten, nunmehr die Wiederauferstehung bringen könnten. Wenn die bisherigen Parteien Deutschland ernstlich retten möchten, warum haben sie es dann nicht schon bisher getan. Haben sie aber Deutschland retten wollen, weshalb ist es unterblieben? Haben die Männer dieser Parteien es ehrlich beabsichtigt, dann müßten ihre Programme schlecht gewesen sein. Waren aber ihre Programme richtig, dann können sie selbst es nicht aufrichtig gewollt haben oder sie waren zu unwissend oder zu schwach.
And she has done more damage to Germany and Europe than than any other Politician since WW2.
Impressive to sustain your power in a world full of power hungry men.
0:02 the old lady James May they've been telling you about
25 seconds are enough to understand that someone here doesn't understand the German system. But to be fair, most Germans don't even know it themselves. But I guess this can be stated about any country. Nevertheless, bad video.
Wir werden die Welt zu unseren Gunsten verändern und die Bevölkerung von 8 Milliarden Menschen auf 500 Millionen Menschen reduzieren. Und Ihr könnt rein gar nichts daran ändern. Ihr werdet nichts mehr besitzen, keine Freiheiten mehr haben und müßt in Zukunft immer Masken tragen. Impfungen werden obligatorisch sein ! Was wollt Ihr schon dagegen machen? Ihr seid das Vieh Wir setzen euch Fußball, Alkohol und Drogen vor und Ihr nutzt diese ausreichend. Genau so war das alles geplant. Ihr merkt gar nicht, wie wir euch manipulieren, weil Ihr gar nicht in der Lage seid, das zu merken. Fernsehen beeinflußt euer Denken , Ihr wurdet über Jahrzehnte manipuliert. Haltet die Schnautze und macht das , was Ihr sollt: Gehorchen.
@1960s American Boomer Ich hoffe einfach, diese Mutmaßung bleibt im Reich der Fiktion, will ich damit sagen. Vieles was behauptet wurde, trat halt nicht ein - das kann ein Teil davon sein. Aber das wird die Zeit zeigen, nicht wahr? Ich bin am Ende abgesichert, in meiner endlichen Existenz in diesem Universum. Es juckt mich also nicht einmal.
@Unknown Man hat dich gewarnt.
Ja, klar, unterschiedliche Freizeitaktivitäten wurden nur erfunden um die Menschheit vor einem großen Plan abzulenken. Kinners, weniger in den gleichen Telegram und PAworld-Kanälen Verschwörungstheorien konsumieren, dann sieht man die Welt ggf. differenzierter.
I think she is the best leader in Europe in this century but she is far far behind an Icon or a great leader.
Ther german chencellor has seen 5 british prime ministers. The russian president will soon have seen 3 german chancellors.
It truly is amazing that Germans would vote for a woman who is destroying their very own homeland.
She is not
She represents stability to Germany, just like Brezhnev represented for the Soviet Union. Meaning she started Germany's age of stagnation
It’s all fun and games until they cut through Belgium again.
So she stayed so long in power because she obeyed the will of her people.. Imagine that
I think she was just a puppet of rich german companies. No wonder Germany became a financial superpower. I wonder how often ceo and owner of big german companies used to have meeting and lunch at her office. I had worked as security at Istana, Singapore where they used to have office for president, minister mentor, senior minister and prime minister. Business owner and leader frequently used to visit these offices, I know because we were given informations with list of visitors for the day. Most politicians care about economy of a country rather than well being of citizens. I have seen meeting between ministers and businessmen more than we can imagine as normal puplic. I think policies politicians bring forward are in best interest of industry and business owners. Just look at Brexit, they care so much about their fishing industry. Yes they have other industries interest as well, just giving an example. Most government policies protect big businesses and add more burden to citizens. They add cost to plastic bags which add burden to citizens but they do nothing to plastic manufacturers. They limits inflow of traffics by substituting existing vehicle lane with bicycle paths to lower our emissions but they don’t punish or tax as much as they should to industries who are polluting our environment. We citizens make sacrifices and businesses and industries keep getting richer and richer. We are the sacrificial goats 🐐 for politicians and rich people. We citizens fights, defend different political parties and vote with an illusion that these power hungry politicians are going to change our life for better. Just look into your life what and how Bush, Obama, Trump administration affected your livelihood? It makes me laugh how naive citizens defend, fight and some even die for their preferred politicians and their ideology. 🤦🏻♂️
NZ has exactly the same election system when it comes to our prime minister which is why John Key never lost an election and only left when he resigned from the position.
I'd say it's a reach to call the AfD far-right in any country other than Germany.
AFD is like a slowly growing tumor in the Democratic system in Germany and if not treated will be the end for Germanys Democracy... at least in my opinion.
she is radical immigration tho
I was in 3rd grade when she first came to power. I will complete my master's degree this year and she's still in power.
For too long
"Not radical" Oh cmon
because she has no power, all decisions are made behind scenes
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I mean she is one of the people with the highest IQ in the world...
Love this.
After Hilter the next german dictator. She destroyed Germany and Europe.
Wrong
Human power is an illusion. Cops are brainwashed. Some of them are no longer humans. In China there is child slavery and everyone is complicit in this abomination. Poor? (what is it to be poor?). Rich? (what is it to be rich?). Money is useless and meaningless. Money buys lies. Money is destroying all life. Useless and meaningless humans living a psychotic reality invented to control life and destroy it. They are born in ignorance. They live in ignorance. And they die in ignorance. Any human serving another human is a slave. Go and give everything you own to those who need it as I did 20 years ago. All power is His, Jesus His son is our saviour.
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Sie wird gewählt, weil sie gut Krisen managed. Ansonsten ist sie einfach nicht progressiv genug
Na, mal schauen wer bald nach ihr ans Ruder kommt.
No vision, maybe she dont wanted to talk more and make lots of promises that will never happen.
I already miss her :( pls don’t leave
Tf is dis girl talking
Armin Laschet!!!!!
Really loved this well done and didactic video, the quality is really high, thank you
Only Tsar Putin and others undemocratic regimes have leaders that stay in office for so long. This is not good for any country.
Trop longtemps, je déteste cette personne mais je ne suis pas allemand, donc ça ne compte pas.
Sorry aber ihr macht hier keine Drama Filme. Das ist lang nicht so klar wie ihr das darstellt.
Dann hast du nun an eigenem Leib erfahren dass fast alles auf der Welt auf einer Lüge basiert. Die Geschichte wurde schon immer anders dargestellt als sie war.
This graph was actually absolutely misleading. Her party used to be "the go-to middle" for the regular unbiased german citizen. But she pressed the CDU to the left. Thats why there is a big vaccuum of political power and representation in this country. We pretty much got now 6 mayor parties representing the left and only one trying to represent the whole spectrum of the right. I agree, once she is gone, the backlash of that politic will hurt germany. But she and her close party-members are the fault. She disbanded the standards of her party to gain votes from the semi-left voters. That worked out pretty well for her. Whilst the CDU was at an all time high, their former archrival SPD (which initially represented those semi-left voters, faded to oblivion. Once she is gone the mightiest of our parties will fall apart between the ones who appreciated her way and the ones who want their party to represent what it initially did. Most likely the valuable votes from our former (now semi-left) middle will fall in the hand of the leftists and green- extremists. Our future does'nt look bright
Yes. She’s becoming senile
Wish there were more leaders like her in the world.
She is quite unique. Her speech during the Pandemics First Wave was as a mother would rebuke her childern. She is not really only her party CDU because sometimes she has different opinions on for example gay marriage or Immigration. She tries to get everything into it and is Kind of our all "mother" but We tend to use "Mutti" as a light Form of a ironic Titel for her.
She is a decent human being.
lol.. "boring" only to this adhd-generation. compare old movies to new movies and you will know what i mean. shot switches and camera cuts to the max. wouldnt wanna "bore" the audience..
-dude this vid just reinforced the german "wörk wörk wörk" stereotype in my mind lol- this just shows what happens when true -optimates- intellectuals take the lead and not some puffed up over rated populists
I hope the next will be a woman too.....
With a lot of woman at top position the world got worse!
Nuclear phase out was a mistake
Smartmatic dominion
Armin Laschet ist gewählt... ist Deutschland bereit für einen Mann als Kanzlerin?
@Rabi M nicht so sehr wie dein Enkel
Armin laschet wird Deutschland zerstören
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Reicht jetzt
The loudest in the room is not always the strongest one
Of course not, but she is the most powerful women in the world and a very good in what she does.
DW team, you need some coffee. This was too slow
I alwys have great respect for women in positions of power!
It is a very easy question. If the politic and media are having an agreement, then anybody can stay at power as long as she wants. In Germany all the media outlets are providing the same information to general population. I don't know what is the mechanism behind it, but it works like everything works in Germany: with a system of high precision.
Paradox der deutschen Politik kann man echt super easy entwirren. Wenn Politik ein Packt mit der Presse hat, kann jede an der Macht bleiben so lange wie sie will. Wenn das Land die freien Medien hätte, wäre das wahrlich unmöglich.
What about covering MONDAYS. IN GERMANY
Where is the link to Merkel's last Dance ???
Wuhan make us suffer
Dictator!!!
Warum denkst du das? Why you think it? Please argument
Move back to the centre right. Moving to the centre did help for a time but all it did was take share from the left which was already fragmented and the biggest left party, SPD was in decline. This is important because if the CDU & SPD seats keep declining, they may not have enough seats to form a government. A more right CDU is better than the AfD.
I agree. Many complained the CDU went too far left from where it was. The AfD as it is now seems too far right given what people are running it in notable positions. A more center/right leaning CDU should appease them and they would fill their role as conservative oriented party again. I think it would also bring some sort of stability to many parts of society.
don't forget, she has reversed a democratic election
@oLii96x Sure, Thüringen 2020. Are you even from Germany?
No she didn't
She destroyed Germany. And yet other parties are even more a mess. She is the lesser evil. Imagine living in a society where you are forced to choose the lesser evil...
How she destroyed Germany?. Germany is the richest country in the world and it is way better then America
She does a good job and to be honest, the opposition could not bring a good alternative in the whole time.
#neinzurafd
When this system explodes, German politics is just a mutual agreement by parties, politicians proven by the coalitions that is being their driving force over decades.
She served for 15 years let that sink in. If it were other weaker countries, the west will be calling for Regime change.
That makes no sense
Boring is best
In Germany she is called 'Mother' that clearly shows how her image is painted for people minds. And that my friends is a cult of personality. They are so brainwashed that they think everything will collapse if she is gone. Do you think world will stop for one person when there is 7 billion of us.
@oLii96x Yes, "Mutti" is also sometimes sarcastic or with a slight ironic undertone. "Mother" is actually not a fitting translation, as it's not as close as "Mommy". There you go. "Mommy" is a better fit.
Mutti does not exactly translate to mother. It is just a term to describe her calm and boring character
Wo ist das problem wenn bestimme Personen sie Mutter nennen, sie hat doch nie gesagt das alle sie so nennen müssen?
Hey, good video but the FDP is definitv more right than the CDU! CDU is knows as very middle and SPD is more left too! Sorry but I am from Germany and this is just wrong.
@oLii96x So würde ich das auch sehen. Eine FDP würde ich auf einem politischen Lineal eher links von der CDU (gesellschaftliche Themen zumindest) einordnen, als "Bindeglied" zum sozialen/grünen/linken Bereich.
Das kommt auf die Definition an. In ökonomischen Themen ist die fdp rechter, in gesellschaftlichen progressiver