Angela Merkel saw Germans through crisis after crisis. Now they wonder who'll fill the void – CNN

The protégé of then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel was known by him as “mein Maedel” — “my girl.” “She always was underestimated by her enemies and by other politicians, and when they realized that a woman from the east is able to play this power game, it was too late,” Ralph Bollmann, author of the authoritative … Read more