Angela Merkel chilled Vladimir Putin's Kremlin this week only a few days after she thawed the Bush White House. The back-to-back visits were an accident of scheduling. But they signal the determination of the new German chancellor to put her own stamp on the foreign policy of Europe's strongest... -
Merkel's Middle Way
Angela Merkel chilled Vladimir Putin's Kremlin this week only a few days after she thawed the Bush White House. The back-to-back visits were an accident of scheduling. But they signal the determination of the new German chancellor to put her own stamp on the foreign policy of Europe's strongest...-
By Jim Hoagland