END OF AN ERA - The World After Angela Merkel?

"Germany faces tight race to replace Angela Merkel, with climate change as top voter issue" PBS NewsHour 9/24/2021

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SUMMARY:  Germany is one of America's most important allies.  Nearly every American president since George W. Bush has worked closely with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  But for the first time since 2005, she will not be a candidate when Germans head to the polls this Sunday to vote for her successor.  Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant is in Berlin with a preview of this upcoming election.

 

 

"Germany’s deadlock election highlights voters’ generational divide" PBS NewsHour 9/27/2021

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SUMMARY:  Angela Merkel is staying on as interim German Chancellor after the country’s election ended in virtual deadlock. Talks aimed at establishing a new coalition government are underway, but could take months. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Berlin.

BERLIN WALL - 30th Anniversary

"Why German divisions remain, 30 years after fall of the Berlin Wall" PBS NewsHour 11/8/2019

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SUMMARY:  It's been 30 years since one of the 20th century's biggest historic events: the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Although the East German dictatorship subsequently collapsed, cultural and political divisions remain, more than a generation after reunification.  Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on the wall's legacy, the polarizing issue of immigration and the lingering stain of anti-Semitism.