Editors of the Time Magazine have chosen Angela
Merkel as the 'Time Person of the Year 2015' and we can easily gauge it why -
in a year of great European Union (and Europe) crisis - first by Greece
insolvency woes - and they by the incessant flux of refugees from war theatres
like Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and many more - and Angela Merkel
led Germany - as Germany is perceived globally and in Europe - and thus Europe.
Germany is a major global power,
the most important European power and Angela Merkel, its Chancellor who recently
completed ten years in office, has made it among the elite few countries with
global outreach in geopolitics.
Greece debt crisis and flow of
refugees in Europe, the largest mass migration since the World War II, were the
issues threatening to derail the whole world.
And Germany, the country that imposed on the
world the Holocaust, acted as the leader to ensure the much needed balance. And
the world sees behind it the pragmatic vision of Angela Merkel as the most
instrumental element - if at all there is a solution - or at least the sense of
relief, even if we are not sure about. And then there are other issues like
sanctions against Russia for its overtures in Ukraine (and its annexation of
Crimea) or its active support to Bashar al-Assad.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
