Angela's Adversary: Author Takes 'Merkel System' To Task

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Criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has always been shrill in Germany. Now Gertrud Höhler, a confidante of Merkel's political mentor, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, has upped the ante with a new book claiming that Merkel is obsessed with power, ruining the euro and installing an "autocratic regime."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...851774,00.html