The former German chancellor’s book Freedom gives insights on Brexit and her East German upbringing
Angela Merkel was notoriously discreet and privacy-conscious as Germany’s chancellor, rarely veering off message during her 16 years in office.
In her eagerly anticipated political autobiography Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021, she has hardly turned into a gossipmonger overnight. But across 721 pages – published on Tuesday in German and English thanks to nine different translators working on chunks of the book simultaneously – there are glimpses of a Merkel previously unseen.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/26/regrets-feminism-trump-putin-key-takeways-angela-merkel-memoir-freedom
Author : Philip Oltermann
Publish date : 2024-11-26 05:00:02
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