The Man Behind the Iron Chancellor
Merkel got the Greece deal she wanted, but it caused rifts in her party and strengthened the hand of her hard-line finance minister.
BY JULY 21, 2015
BERLIN — Last Friday, Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, overwhelmingly voted to support Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan for how the country should handle its negotiations with a cash-strapped Greece. From afar, it may have looked like a major victory for the so-called Iron Chancellor, who muscled Greece into accepting a third bailout package under the conditions that Athens double down on budget cutting and taxation, begin far-reaching privatization, and finally begin a wide range of structural reforms.
The Man Behind the Iron Chancellor by Thavam Ratna
The Man Behind the Iron Chancellor by Thavam Ratna
