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Europe's bruised 'Queen' Merkel lives another day

Frank ZELLER  AFP•March 4, 2018

Lumpy, Dumpy and Grumpy

Berlin (AFP) - Long dubbed the "Queen of Europe", Germany's veteran Chancellor Angela Merkel emerges as the bruised survivor of her deepest crisis to govern for what many expect will be her final term.

After 12 years at the helm of Europe's top economy, the pastor's daughter often called the world's most powerful woman goes on to live another day after post-war Germany's longest stretch of coalition haggling.

If she indeed serves out her fourth four-year term, the 63-year-old could match or surpass the marathon tenure of her late mentor, Germany's "reunification chancellor" Helmut Kohl.

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