Voxeurop: Angela Merkel

 

https://voxeurop.eu/en/ https://voxeurop.eu/de/ Few modern European political figures have been so thoroughly sketched and caricatured as Angela Merkel. And for good reason: the outgoing German chancellor has been in power longer than any other elected leader on the continent (excluding, of course, the autocrats in Moscow, Ankara and Minsk). Furthermore, for better or worse, Berlin's starring role on the European stage, and Merkel’s political longevity, have often made "Mutti" – "mommy", as some Germans call her – the face of the “faceless” European Union.   As Merkel prepares to stand down following the imminent federal election, we offer a selection of editorial cartoons featuring the chancellor from the last ten years, while journalist Paul Ostwald offers a personal account of "generation Merkel".

The disenchanted “Generation Merkel” : a divorce between youth and political power Paul Ostwald   Like many young Germans born after the reunification, Paul Ostwald has barely known anyone but Angela Merkel as chancellor. Now, as Merkel prepares to step down, the reassuring stability she embodied has turned to disenchantment, which is likely to turn up at the ballot box on 26 September.

Merkel in a men’s world   In this third episode of our Merkel podcast series, we meet Angela as a minister, dealing with feminism, abortion and a ski accident.

The cartoonists’ view on “Mutti” Voxeurop   In her more than 16 years in power, the outgoing chancellor has inspired cartoonists like few other European leaders have. On the eve of the elections that will mark her retirement from politics, we present here a selection of cartoons published over the last ten years by Presseurop and then Voxeurop.

‘Covid was an opportunity for independent media outlets for growing and connecting to their audience’ Gian-Paolo Accardo   In this interview European Journalism Centre editor Tara Kelly explains the main findings of the Resilience Reports, an in-depth research on 24 independent news organisations across 19 European countries and how they cope with the pandemic. The outcome is not as pessimistic as one could think, she says.