Freedom : memoirs 1954-2021 /
Angela Merkel
Bok · Engelsk · 2024 · Autobiographies.
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| Originaltittel | [ Freiheit. .] English
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| Omfang | 709 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ;
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| Utgave | First U.S. edition.
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| Opplysninger | Includes index.. - Translated from German by Alice Tetley-Paul, Jamie Lee Searle, Jo Heinrich, Lucy Jones, Ruth Martin, Sharon Howe, Shaun Whiteside, and Simon Pare.. - Part Five: Serving Germany (II), September 5, 2015 to December 8, 2021. A friendly face ; "Then this is not my country" ; Finding solutions ; Islamist terrorism in Germany ; On suspicion and trust ; Standing for re-election? -- An interconnected world - the reef knot ; A globe, a map, and tolerance ; Brexit ; New alliances ; Free trade agreement ; The Paris Agreement ; Partnership with Africa ; World powers: India and China ; Donald Trump ; G20 in Hamburg -- Climate and energy ; A catastrophe and its consequences ; Natural gas ; The precautionary principle -- The Bundeswehr in active service ; Afghanistan ; Libya ; Mandatory military service ; The Western Balkans -- Israel ; In Adenauer's footsteps ; Reason of state -- Kairos ; "Time to Go" ; Retirement from CDU leadership -- The pandemic ; A challenge to democracy ; Hopes and disappointments ; An acid test for Europe ; Uncharted territory ; Global politics in the shadow of the pandemic ; Military Tattoo.. - Part Four: Serving Germany (I), November 22, 2005 to September 4, 2015. First ; Tuesday, November 22, 2005 ; Paris Brussels London Berlin Düsseldorf Hamburg ; Let us dare more freedom ; Setting a course ; Warsaw ; European Council ; "Where, o where have you gone?" -- A summer's tale ; New traditions ; Third place -- Hosting in a wicker beach chair ; Lunch with George W. Bush ; The G8 discussions ; Waiting for Vladimir Putin 355 -- Global economic crisis ; Armida and IKB ; Worldwide turbulence ; The savings holders' guarantee ; The rescue package ; Jobs ; G20 -- Euro crisis ; The coalition of choice ; The Solvay Library ; The road to Ithaca ; If the euro fails, Europe fails ; Looking for the bazooka ; On a knife edge -- Ukraine and Georgia in NATO? ; The invasion of Ukraine ; The NATO summit in Bucharest -- Peace and self-determination in Ukraine ; The Eastern partnership ; The Maidan protests ; The annexation of Crimea ; The Normandy Format ; Petro Poroshenko's peace plan ; Seventeen hours of negotiations in Minsk ; A breath of cold war -- "We can do this!" ; At the gates of Europe ; The summer press conference ; The decision.. - Part One: "I wasn't born Chancellor", July 17, 1954 to November 9, 1989. Happy childhood Quitzow ; The Waldhof estate ; In a state of pure shock ; Goetheschule ; Holidays ; Prague Spring ; Hermann Matern School -- Off and away ; The study of physics ; Lighthearted ; Timbres and gold dust ; The diploma ; Ilmenau -- At the East German Academy of Sciences ; Rate constants ; The FDJ and Marxism-Leninism ; Marienstrasse ; Templiner Strasse ; International exchanges ; Increasing disengagement ; Buying a home ; Travels to the West.. - Part Three: Freedom and responsibility, December 3, 1990 to November 21, 2005. "Aufbau Ost" ; Maundy Thursday ; A broken leg ; The neighbor ; Citizens' consultation ; "Blossoming landscapes"? ; Against aggression and violence -- Equal rights ; Feminist? ; A stiff neck -- Sustainability ; No energy consensus ; Foreign affairs politician ; The Price of Survival -- Why the CDU? ; Party chair ; The travails of the plains- or: the battle for authority ; Parliamentary chairwoman ; Snap elections ; Let's not get carried away!. - Part Two: A democratic awakening, November 10, 1989 to December 2, 1990. Unity and justice and freedom ; Mixed feelings ; First political steps ; A special election campaign ; Friction and conflicts ; Diplomacy's finest hour -- Standing on my own two feet ; Through gritted teeth ; Your local candidate.. - "For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states--East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the East, rise to the top of the Christian Democratic Union to become the first woman to hold the Office of Chancellor? And how did she then become one of the most powerful heads of government in the Western world? What guided her? Angela Merkel recounts daily life in the chancellor's office as well as the dramatic days and nights when she made far-reaching decisions in Berlin, Brussels, and beyond"--
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| ISBN | 1250319900. - 9781250319906
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