Video Length 24 minutes 34 seconds
Angela Merkel steps down as chancellor after 16 years main Europe’s largest financial system.
For 16 years, Chancellor Angela Merkel steered Germany by means of financial meltdowns, refugee crises and – most just lately – a pandemic.
Now her management has come to an finish.
Olaf Scholz takes over as chancellor and can run Europe’s largest financial system.
He says his three-party coalition authorities will work with democracies all over the world and strengthen the European Union.
Scholz faces quite a few challenges, together with rising COVID-19 infections, local weather change and geopolitical tensions with Russia and China.
So what’s subsequent for Germany and the European Union?
Presenter: Hazem Sika
Company:
Ulrich Brueckner – Professor of political science, Stanford College in Berlin
Rebecca Christie – Non-resident fellow at Bruegel, an unbiased think-tank
Matt Qvortrup – Chair of utilized political science at Coventry College and writer of Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Chief