Former US president Barack Obama, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, leave the Chancellery after a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 5, 2019. In a memoir, former US president Barack Obama offered praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Deutsche Welle reports. Unlike Merkel, Obama wrote, Sarkozy appeared too disorganized to construct a serious plan for economic reform, adding that Sarkozy's approach lacked "ideological consistency." He additionally outlines Merkel's career in brief for readers, saying that while growing up in the former East Germany, Merkel initially "kept her head down." "I think very much of Angela Merkel.

Source: The Standard November 20, 2020 06:33 UTC