Angela Merkel, Reluctant Leader of the West, ‘Has Gotten the Taste for It’
Steven Erlanger /
The New York Times
“It all sounds dull, but she likes that — dullness is her middle name. But it’s ambitious all the same, even if she moves step by step, as ever with her. But that suits Europe — you can’t revolutionize Europe. She sits and waits and lets everyone speak, and then she finds a compromise. That is her strength.”