Germany's first woman chancellor

[ConanTL]

Angela Merkal, from the conservative CDU, will become the first woman chancellor of Germany. The government will be led by a grand coaltion of conservatives and democrats and the opposition will consists of libertarians, greens and left-wing dumbfucks. So now the only question open is which people will become secrataries of this and that.

full story (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/10/merkel.profile.reut/index.html)

flattering picture (http://www.igadi.org/artigos/2005/imaxes/cdu_angela_merkel640.jpg)

less flattering caricature (http://www.promikatur.de/fileadmin/images/wallpapers/angela-merkel-wallpaper-1280x960.jpg)

[pidgeball6]

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/Euro-SubTour2004/2Museum/images/Euro2055-Muddy_MudskipperLG.jpg
Oh, I'd hit it...

[vchampionl70]

I'm excited. It's nice to see Schroeder getting the boot. If only he'd take Chirac with him.

[Stanky105]

I'm excited. It's nice to see Schroeder getting the boot. If only he'd take Chirac with him.

I gotta agree with you on this one, on both points.

[Kazimierz]

I'm excited. It's nice to see Schroeder getting the boot. If only he'd take Chirac with him.

While we're at it, let's boot the entire population of the European continent, since leadership aside, the citizens are still (i dont know if Merkal is pro-US policy) anti.

[ConanTL]

While we're at it, let's boot the entire population of the European continent, since leadership aside, the citizens are still (i dont know if Merkal is pro-US policy) anti.

She's pro-american, this basically sums up her views:

Merkel supports a substantial reform agenda concerning Germany's economic and social system. Merkel is considered to be more pro-free market (and pro-deregulation) than her own party (the CDU); she has advocated changes to German labour law, specifically, removing barriers to firing employees and increasing the allowed number of work hours in a week, arguing that current laws make the country less competitive because companies cannot easily control labour costs at times when business is slow. [1]

Merkel believes there should be a strong transatlantic partnership and German-American friendship. In the spring of 2003, defying strong public opposition, Merkel came out in favour of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, describing it as "unavoidable" and accusing Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of reactionary anti-Americanism. This led some critics to characterize her as an American lackey.

She opposes Turkish EU membership and favours a "privileged partnership" instead. In doing so, she is seen as being in unison with an overwhelming majority of Germans who reject Turkish membership in the European Union, particularly due to fears that large waves of immigration may impose an unbearable burden on Germany and that there would be too much Islamist influence within the EU.

She believes that the existing nuclear power stations should be phased out less quickly than is advocated by the current government.