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Merkelism
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English
Etymology
From en Merkel -ism.
Noun
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en politics The politics of German politician Angela Merkel (born 1954).
en https://www.ft.com/content/67732638-96f4-4249-a2e6-9e2b756349ee w:Financial Times And the winner is . . . Angela Merkel. After 16 years, Germany’s chancellor is standing down. The nation’s voters are signalling they want to hang on to “Merkelism”. Europe does not need four more years of ‘Merkelism’ 2021-09-09 Philip Stephens https://archive.ph/dssOl 2021-09-09
en Lisa Haseldine Whatever happens next, Merkelism is finished Telegraph.co.uk The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/23/whatever-happens-next-merkelism-is-finished/ 2025-02-23 Merkelism is dead, long live Germany. https://web.archive.org/web/20260110170719/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/23/whatever-happens-next-merkelism-is-finished/ 10 January 2026
Related terms
en Merkelian
Translations
French: fr merkélisme m
German: de Merkelismus m
en eponyms
en German politics