Angela Merkel Becomes Time’s Person of the Year

“From steering Europe through serial debt crises to welcoming literally a million migrants from Syria and other tumultuous places into Europe and pressing forward with her vision of an open and borderless Europe, we deemed her the person who most affected the news and the world in this past year.” . Merkel led the response in the West to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea in Ukraine.

For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is Time’s Person of the Year.

The competition was strong, but it seems that Angela Merkel deserved the title for her resoluteness and perserverance.

“Not once or twice but three times there has been reason to wonder this year whether Europe could continue to exist, not culturally or geographically but as a historic experiment in ambitious statecraft”, Time editor Nancy Gibbs wrote. This is her 10th year in office as Germany’s leader. She is serving as the Chancellor of Germany since 2005.

Merkel is the fourth woman to be named Time’s “Person of the Year”.

Although all deserving of commendation, Angela’s presence in politics has meant a great deal to many women and morevoer, her supporters unanimously agree that she has helped keep peace in a particularly unsettled year. Times Magazine started to come up with the list of Person of the Year from 1927.

Raised in East Germany, she’s gone from child of the Cold War to champion of the European Union.

Mrs Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said: “I am sure the chancellor will cherish this as an incentive in her job”.

The other nominees were Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, ISIS extremist group leader, Hassan Rouhani, Iranian president, America Black Lives Matter activists and Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, whose rhetorics is everything else but ordinary and tiresome.