Angela Merkel: The ‘Better Social Democrat’ Turns 65
In 1999, Merkel was not Kohl's 'little girl' anymore. She even broke with him. As the CDU's secretary general, she criticized her former mentor in an opinion piece in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' daily, for refusing to name donors, when a rather big party donation scandal erupted. It did not take long until Merkel became the CDU's chairlady.
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