German leader Angela Merkel named Time’s Person of the Year

Donald, being the actual grump that he is, complained over Twitter about Time not choosing him despite being a “favorite”, and picking someone who is “ruining Germany”. “At the beginning of this year Time said:” Merkel had already emerged as the indispensable player in managing Europe’s serial debt crisis. Merkel, only 61, is the fourth woman ever to be featured as Person of the Year.

Time magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as their Person of the Year. Her accomplishments are many, but here are some like her firm determination to lead Europe all the way during the Greek crisis, which was so far the greatest threat to survival of the European Union or insisting and negotiating with other members of EU to open their borders and receive refugees and migrants from war zones of Middle East and Asia.

The decadelong German chancellor is only the fourth woman to be named Person of the Year and the first since then-Philippines President Coarzon Aquino in 1986. “Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow”, TIME Editor Nancy Gibbs wrote in her explanation for choosing Merkel.

Time also cited Merkel’s strong response to what it described as “Vladimir Putin’s creeping theft of Ukraine” and, on its cover, called her “Chancellor of the Free World”.

“Each time Merkel stepped in”. This is her 10th year in office as Germany’s leader. “By year’s end, she had steered the enterprise through not one but two existential crises, either of which could have meant the end of the union that has kept peace on the continent for seven decades”.

“At a moment when much of the world is once more engaged in a furious debate about the balance between safety and freedom, the chancellor is asking a great deal of the German people, and by their example, the rest of us as well”, Gibbs said.

Time named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State extremist group, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, America’s Black Lives Matter activists campaigning against inequality against African Americans and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as its runners up.