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Merkel: Kriitiline pilk
"Te ju tunnete mind" - nende sõnadega taotles Angela Merkel 2013. aastal oma tagasivalimist. Aga kes on Merkel päriselt? Millised on tema saavutused? Millised on olnud tema suurimad vead? Käesolevas teoses teevad Merkeli kantsleriaastatest kokkuvõtte 22 professorit ja publitsisti. Esseekogumiku koostaja, Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitungi toimetaja Philip Plickert, on Merkeli tegutsemist ja poliitilist isiksust kutsunud analüüsima mainekaid autoreid. Nende seas silmapaistvad inimesed, nagu türgi päritolu Saksa sotsioloog Necla Kelek, publitsist Cora Wolffsohn, Thilo Sarrazin, majandusajakirjanik Roland Tichy, feminismikriitik Birgit Kelle, majandusprofessor Justus Haucap. Veel on politolooge ja ajakirjanikke Suurbritanniast, Ameerikast ja Ida-Euroopast.
Kantsler on suutnud oma valijaile jätta mulje suurkujust. Poliitikuna hinnatakse teda teinekord üle. Lisaks suurtele saavutustele on tema südametunnistusel rohkesti ränku vigu. Euroala võlakriisi puhkedes hakkas ta laveerima. Kui Jaapanis leidis aset Fukushima tuumaelektrijaamas aset avarii, otsustas Merkel ülepeakaela korraldada Saksamaal energiapöörde - loobumise tuuma- ja fossiilkütustest taastuvate energiaallikate kasuks. Kritiseerida annab ka liidukantsleri tegevust pagulaskriisi vältel. Kantsleri kõhklused ja kiirlahendused tähendavad Saksamaale ränka koormat veel pikaks ajaks.
Kantsler on suutnud oma valijaile jätta mulje suurkujust. Poliitikuna hinnatakse teda teinekord üle. Lisaks suurtele saavutustele on tema südametunnistusel rohkesti ränku vigu. Euroala võlakriisi puhkedes hakkas ta laveerima. Kui Jaapanis leidis aset Fukushima tuumaelektrijaamas aset avarii, otsustas Merkel ülepeakaela korraldada Saksamaal energiapöörde - loobumise tuuma- ja fossiilkütustest taastuvate energiaallikate kasuks. Kritiseerida annab ka liidukantsleri tegevust pagulaskriisi vältel. Kantsleri kõhklused ja kiirlahendused tähendavad Saksamaale ränka koormat veel pikaks ajaks.
256 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2018
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November 1, 2024
Very good book with excellent essays drawing a critical balance of the different aspects of the tragically long and sdisastrous Merkel years. Yes, 16 years, far too long for any leader, especially for a leader without real leadership qualities like Merkel. Her chancelorship was not just wasted years, but caused irreversible damage to Germany, the CDU, the European Union and global security.
She destroyed the CDU, which was once a Christian conservative party, but today the C is only an empty letter in the partys acronym and hardly distringuishable from the green party or the SDP. In the end, she helped a lot to the cration and emergence of the AfD.
She crazily let in more than one million undocumented Middle Easterns and stuck in her head and made it a taboo to even talk about the lack of integration and the danger and cost to society that these masses have caused and will cause in the long term.
She was the champion of the world's stupidest energy policy, the famous Energiewende, throwing billions of euros of taxpayers money out the window to pursue dubious climate goals in the end creating a less stable, more expensive energy supply with larger emission. Her emotional decision to phase out nuclear energy in a rush made her and Germany a laguhing stock in the world. Moreover, her stupid decision to rely more on Russian gas in her Energiewende made Germany and Europe more dependent on Putin's Russia.
She kowtowed to Putin and let him get away with his aggression against Ukraine in 2014/15.
She neglected the Bundeswehr and defence policy.
Her inaction and refugee madness was a key factor in Brexit, in the end making the European Union weaker.
These are just the list of her main sins. Let's hope Germany recovers and leave behind Merkel's disastrous legacy.
She destroyed the CDU, which was once a Christian conservative party, but today the C is only an empty letter in the partys acronym and hardly distringuishable from the green party or the SDP. In the end, she helped a lot to the cration and emergence of the AfD.
She crazily let in more than one million undocumented Middle Easterns and stuck in her head and made it a taboo to even talk about the lack of integration and the danger and cost to society that these masses have caused and will cause in the long term.
She was the champion of the world's stupidest energy policy, the famous Energiewende, throwing billions of euros of taxpayers money out the window to pursue dubious climate goals in the end creating a less stable, more expensive energy supply with larger emission. Her emotional decision to phase out nuclear energy in a rush made her and Germany a laguhing stock in the world. Moreover, her stupid decision to rely more on Russian gas in her Energiewende made Germany and Europe more dependent on Putin's Russia.
She kowtowed to Putin and let him get away with his aggression against Ukraine in 2014/15.
She neglected the Bundeswehr and defence policy.
Her inaction and refugee madness was a key factor in Brexit, in the end making the European Union weaker.
These are just the list of her main sins. Let's hope Germany recovers and leave behind Merkel's disastrous legacy.
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