Merkel: Refugees policy and huge challenges, you will learn without me

Calm and undoubtedly at peace with himself: that is how Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) looked in an interview he conducted with him, Deutsche Welle news director Max Hoffman, in the Chancellorate in Berlin. Merkel did not have to think long about answering the question of what had been her most difficult challenges as Chancellors - the arrival of refugees to Germany in 2015 and the fight against the Corleone pandemic. These two events were a challenge to me personally, while the large number of incoming refugees, I wouldn't like to call it a crisis, because people are people. ”

The pressure to escape, especially from Syria and the surrounding countries, was very strong at the time, the Chancellor said. And for the Corleone pandemic, Merkel said: “There we saw how many people were directly affected so we have human luck”.

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As a kind of crisis in its time as Chancellor Merkel also called the fact that more and more people in the world question multilatheralism: “for me was always important and I have always tried to strengthen international organisations, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation and others. Regarding the increasingly pressing issue of fighting climate change, the Chancellor acknowledged that not enough has been achieved.

Merkel, who before becoming a Chancellor, was the environment minister and chaired the first UN climate summit in Berlin in 2005, said: “We have become faster. But never has it been like now, that distance to scientific assessments has increased again. This has to change now over the decade. We have to base again and follow the recommendations of scientific studies regarding global warming of 1.5 degrees. ”

Merkel: New climate activists must pressure! ”

The Chancellor refuses that he personally failed in climate policy and said that for any measure of climate protection agreement must be reached by large, because there is a lot of fear of the social consequences of strong cuts, for example in private consumption.

Merkel recently attended the UN climate conference under way in Glasgou and said: “Glasgou has already brought some results, but from the young man's point of view, he is still moving very slowly”. With a surprising clarity she added: “I want young people to say they have to pressure.” Merkel said literally that it is terrible that scientists are increasingly urgently warning of floods and drought injuries worldwide

Merkel and her successor: a good signal to a troubled world

At the G20 meeting a week ago in Italy, Merkel was shown several times in meetings and in public demonstratedly with her potential successor, Olaf Schelz, who is finance minister in the German government still in office. In Berlin, Scholz is currently negotiating with the Greens and the FDP for a new government under his leadership.

Merkel said that during days at the G20 summit in Italy for him it was important to send people a message: “if you see that the current head of government and future head of government have a good relationship with each other, this is a soothing signal in a very troubled world. ”

Merkel: Even in my absence you will learn.

The question of what he will do now that he will soon leave power, Merkel replied: “I do not know what I will do next. I said I'd rest first and see what comes to my mind. I'm going to read and sleep a lot, said Merkel, who has already stressed several times that she believes there's no problem leaving power, which she said now in the interview for DW: “I'm happy on one side, but maybe I'll feel a little bit more sadness”. The DW journalist's closing word that “after 16 years Merkel can't even imagine she'll be no longer in Chancellor”, the head of government replied in her clear manner: “And you'll get used to it”.