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Controversy rages in Germany over the Chancellor’s balance sheet, four months after her departure. But she prefers to remain silent.
By Pascale Hugues, correspondent in Berlin
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ATAngela Merkel has disappeared. The German Chancellor had promised, on leaving power last December, to refrain from any comments and good advice for her successor Olaf Scholz. If not for a brief paragraph in the newspapers mentioning that his wallet had been stolen from him at the supermarket, and a pithy press release condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one would think that it no longer exists. After four terms as chancellery, she has well and truly eclipsed German and European political life, in which she has participated tirelessly since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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