There's a good piece presented by Nikolaus Blome via N-TV, and it centers on an odd topic....Covid-19 and Chancellor Merkel.....that without vast power, she's unable to do much but stand and watch events unfold.
I'd recommend a read of the commentary.
The ban rules and lockdown period? From both a physiological view and commerce standing....a fair number of Germans have hit maximum frustration level over the past three months.
I tend to agree with Blome with this analysis, but would go and suggest that the whole era (since 2005) has been a period with a college Chancellor type view of government and 'just minding the store'. If you wanted real executive authority (like Schmidt or Kohl)....well, you weren't going to get that.
No scandals....quiet intellectual chatter, and leading the country from a mostly center-center type approach, has been the general path of things. You can talk about serious blunders from 2013 to 2016 with the mass migration business, but you can't find anyone to really fire or demand answers. You can ask a lot of questions over the quick path out of nuclear energy but it always goes to a worse case scenario.
The endpoint of the current Covid mess? Well....one assumes that lockdown has an endpoint. But the more you stare at it....it just seems like several lockdown versions will come and go, and maybe we are nowhere near the official end.
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