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“... concerns about the reversal of democracy in Russia. Recent remarks by Condoleezza Rice and Angela Merkel, as well as official statements by the leadership of the EU, have been critical of Russia’s attacks on civil society, including the doing away with political opposition, media censorship and the crackdown on NGOs. But the connections between ...”

“... Fellow courtiers are caught by Burney’s lash, notably the atrocious Mrs Schwellenberg, an Angela Merkel-like operator who had run the queen’s household for decades, and who, when not tormenting underlings at court, relaxed in the company of her pet frogs: ‘A commendation ensued, almost ecstatic, of their most recreative & dulcet ...”

“... trilingual, exchanging email addresses with Mario Vargas Llosa and fielding calls from Angela Merkel. In reality, Glavinic and Kehlmann are better matched. They are very similar writers, a literary double act: for a recent article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about the Viennese literary scene, they turned up together to be ...”

“... I show her a picture I took in Athens of the cover of the Greek Private Eye, Pontiki, introducing Angela Merkel as Greece’s new prime minister. ‘I’ve seen worse,’ Naumann says. ‘In Germany we have daily papers like Bild and they’re not informing people. That’s really bad. The Greek newspapers are doing exactly the same. You could never ...”

“... about asylum seekers arriving from Syria. Die Welt’s review appeared on 31 August, the day Angela Merkel – who, like Erpenbeck, grew up in the German Democratic Republic – upended national policy with the words ‘Wir schaffen das’: ‘We can do this.’ The border opened four days later.Not a Novel is a selection of Erpenbeck’s occasional ...”

“... announced. Get this wrong and ‘there will be no second chance.’ It was salvation or the abyss. Angela Merkel wanted people to know that it was important not to be rushed; any solution would take time. ‘The European crisis will not be solved in one fell swoop,’ she declared. ‘It is a process and this process will take years.’ So which one was ...”

“... letters – in the tradition of Khomeini and the Prophet – to world leaders. The letter to Angela Merkel describes Germany as an innocent victim of World War Two. As Naji shows, such sentiments derive not only from belligerence but from Ahmadinejad’s lack of familiarity with the outside world. His pronouncements have caused consternation among ...”

“... the taxpayers will be there to bail them out. After a meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy in the autumn, Angela Merkel stated her conviction that ‘no bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.’ She’s right – but unfortunately, that’s the system we have, and will continue to have for the foreseeable future. It is a ...”

“... as a figure above parties or even above politics altogether – confirms the point, as does Angela Merkel, who during her re-election campaign in 2013 refused to offer much of a programme and rode to victory by saying over and over: ‘You know me.’ (When she went on to open the borders to refugees, a fair number of Germans felt that they ...”

“... EU, Orbán is the pioneer of populism in power. Like Trump, he has needed mainstream supporters; Angela Merkel and other Christian Democrats have been covering for him for years. Orbán was the only head of government in Europe to endorse Trump. On a recent visit to London, he gloated that Trump’s election means a return to ‘real democracy’, as ...”

“... and Shutter wrote, becoming ‘increasingly harsh, not to say hysterical’. In August 2015, Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to a million migrants by saying ‘Wir schaffen das’ (‘We will handle this’). To many, this felt like an act of atonement, or at least the sign of a wish for Germany to appear humane. ...”

“... grown used to the permanent presence of millions of foreign workers and other immigrants. In 2015, Angela Merkel dared to say ‘Wir schaffen das!’ – ‘We can manage this’ – as she opened the gate to a million refugees. It was an empathy too far for many of her compatriots. ‘For many refugees, foreign journalists and humanitarians at home, it ...”

“... the Ozy board. When he visited the newsroom he praised a recent story as the best profile of Angela Merkel he’d ever read. That was weird, I thought. The writer hadn’t talked to anyone so there was nothing new in it.Until the Springer investment Ozy’s cofounders hadn’t seemed to care about journalism, or to understand it. They had no idea ...”

“... the legal foundation of the bond-buying programme the ECB had devised to stabilise the Eurozone. Angela Merkel and Mario Draghi, the head of the ECB, would have been forced to ‘come to the table very quickly with a decent deal. Then the banks will open the next day.’ Tsipras wasn’t convinced; he seemed to fear a military coup. It became clear to ...”

“... Nâ‡gâs – known in German as Hornkranz. It was the seat of Hendrik Witbooi, chief of the Witbooi Nama people. The territory between the Nama and the Ovaherero to the north was disputed, and skirmishes were not uncommon, but Witbooi turned down all German offers of protection, insisting that local peoples should be allowed to deal with their own problems ...”