Angela Merkel and victory over herself

It says: Badalli Center

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will soon release her office in Berlin. Within it has remained nearly 16 years to lead the most powerful country in Europe, as well as one of the most powerful in the world. These sentences belong to a common media report, but its political journey requires a more detailed analysis that exceeds the world of fact description, because this journey was actually a complete marathon.

As it came to the helm of Germany in 2005, Angela Merkel had continued to maintain a stable state and a stable and tangible development on the economic plains, as a true democrat has been able to neutralise markedly, almost to the margin, ultranationalist ideological and political lines under Merkel's leadership seemed simple and only ghosts of the past. Exclude a slight destabilisation from time to time on both plains, this is the permanent picture of Merkel government.

Being at the helm of Germany implies a double lead role, since Germany has taken the greatest responsibility for leading the European Union since its de facto establishment. The first serious challenge in the dual leadership for Merkel has been the financial crisis that hit the Eurozone, particularly Greece. German Chancellor's political maneuvers were discreet and productive. Billion-billion-euro aid to Greece represents only one of Merkel's necessary moves in office to bring an economic situation under control that only went through.

Syria's accession of refugees to Germany was another challenge to which the Chancellor made a kind of management. The solution to the problem for Germany was clear and simple: On the basis of democratic principles and values, as well as in the country's economic interest refugees would be accepted. However, Merkel failed to drop off a host of other European countries that, instead of open doors, had placed thorns in border areas. This moment would reveal the point where Merkel had ongoing problems: The European Union's leadership.

Later, the serial terrorist attacks on European Union countries -- the annexation of the Crime from Russia, the extraordinary strain of reports with Turkey, the exit of the Schengen Zone of several European countries, the rise of Great Britain from the EU, the offensive of nationalist populism forces -- created an unprecedented moment for the European Union. For a moment everything was destroyed. The only hope for stability and democracy remained Angela Merkel. No doubt this period has been the most serious challenge and the greatest political crackdown Merkel has received throughout its 16-year leadership.

Again, Merkel was affected by weakness in the European Union leadership since she failed to stop a single process, since everyone was at the expense of the Euopian Union. Shocked by a series of processes, which as if they were synchronized, followed each other, and clearly seemed to be completely out of control, Emmanuel Macron's victory in France was a vital political invasion. This helped Merkel maintain a fragile stability that had already been created in the EU and to halt further escalation of the situation. Integration of other countries within the bloc, as well as the European Union's active geopolitical role, was removed from the agenda. Such a change in the agenda and strategy was the acceptance of the EU's defeat. Merkel here had her own responsibility, but also the merits that sabotaged an eventual break-up of the bloc and served as a sense of hope for Western liberalisation.

The inability of the political consensus within the European Union, the focus on preserving status-quo, slow enlargement processes, reactional and defanzi policy, as well as the secondary and peripheral role in geopolitical battles, have marked the entire period of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling stance in relation to the leading role in the European Union. An illustrative example of this reality of political powerlessness is mediating Kosovo- Serbia from the European Union, which, although making a decade as a process, has produced extremely poor results and without any sign of eventual solutions.

In relation to Kosovo, Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel's leadership has been the main European supporter. Merkel has supported Kosovo's independence, the statehood process through financial assistance and political support, as well as has provided constant support for all integration processes in the country within Euro-Atlantic structures. Despite having no strong role in achieving peace between Kosovo and Serbia, Germany under Merkel's leadership has been among the rare European states that have conditioned Serbia's EU membership openly through an agreement with Kosovo.

Writing about Angela Merkel from a Balkan country is necessary to highlight even the impact of the Chancellor in relation to the breaking of gender steroids. A woman is pointing a finger at all of Europe” is a common expression spoken with tones of surprise from citizens in some corner of the Balkans. Its stay in power so long and its rule of integrity has become a model and motivation for many young people who target success in party contexts.

The removal of German cacerare from power will inevitably be conveyed with a spirit of instability and political uncertainty, primarily because of a long stay in power meaning adapting to its policymaking, as the Guardian of liberal democracy and stability in the European Union. Taking into account the new course of the United States even under President Biden's leadership, with warnings of withdrawal from the active role in the geopolitical framework, Merkel's departure in this context constituted a serious leg for the stability of the current Western order.

Judged on the individual level, Angela Merkel is a phenomenon on her own. At a time when most leaders are easily transformed into technocratic autocrats, where their destructive portion are immersed in corrupts, are hostage to oligarchic networks, maintain power by stealing and instrumentalized religious and nationalist ideology, Angela Merkel, almost alone, against the current notorious political trend, stays in the other workshop; 16 years in power, without any close to corrupts, autonomous and uncontrolled, and only with democratic slogans in hand.

It will be part of history for all of these but deserves to be remembered for another thing that few in long political history have accomplished - victory over themselves. Merkel has won the most difficult battle a man can mark on himself, on the idea and will for power, because Angela Merkel, with a rare move, is giving the chair of the most powerful man in Europe with her own desire, without being defeated by anyone in the race. A moment of greatness. At times, the end explains all the journey. That's Merkel's career. That power did not deviate from him. He was just an instrument to do what he did but not a goal in himself for which it is worth sacrificing himself and everything else.