Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel
Born	Angela Dorothea Kasner 1954-07-17 Hamburg, West Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Leipzig University
Religion	Lutheranism
Spouse	Ulrich Merkel
Member of	Atlantik-Brücke, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1993
Interest of	Stefan Kornelius
Party	Democratic Awakening, Christian Democratic Union
Chancellor of Germany In office 22 November 2005 - Present Preceded by Gerhard Schröder  Leader of the Christian Democratic Union In office 10 April 2000 - Present  Germany/Minister for the Environment In office 17 November 1994 - 26 October 1998  Germany/Minister for Women and Youth In office 18 January 1991 - 17 November 1994  General Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union In office 7 November 1998 - 10 April 2000  Member of the Bundestag  In office 18 January 1991 - Present

Angela Merkel is Time Magazine's "person of the year" for 2015.

US ties

Merkel's have been criticized for her close identification with US foreign policy. Two years before she became Chancellor, she gave a long and glowing defence of the US invasion of Iraq in the German Bundestag (parliament).

 

Quotes by Angela Merkel

Page	Quote	Date
BioNTech	“A year ago today, not everyone was aware that we were going to live in a pandemic. But some already knew or suspected it; and that included Mr. Şahin, the head of BioNTech, who told me that on January 24 he made the decision to overturn the entire BioNTech research program and develop an mRNA vaccine for this virus.”	26 JL
Minsk agreements	“This agreement was commended, approved, welcomed by the EU. This agreement has been incorporated into a UN Security Council resolution, so it has the character of international law, [...] At the time, it brought calm and gave Ukraine, for example, a lot of time, seven years, to develop into what it is today.”	July 2022

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2005	5 May 2005	8 May 2005	Germany Rottach-Egern	The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Munich Security Conference/2009	2009	2009	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2011	4 February 2011	6 February 2011	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 47th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004	21 January 2004	25 January 2004	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2006	25 January 2006	29 January 2006	Switzerland	Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007	24 January 2007	28 January 2007	Switzerland	Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015	21 January 2015	24 January 2015	Switzerland	Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018	23 January 2018	26 January 2018	Switzerland	~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World Economic Forum Switzerland	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense	blog post	3 September 2020	Craig Murray	The US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt.
Document:Why Angela Merkel has lasted so long	Article	30 July 2021	Wolfgang Streeck	2 months before the September 2021 elections in which Angela Merkel will retire as Chancellor, a German economic sociologist writes as to why and how she has been able to hold onto power in Germany for so long after an unprecedented 16 years in power.

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