Germany’s Scholz, an Ineffective Chancellor, Leaves Europe Leaderless
Highly unpopular German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is an ineffective leader, heading a dysfunctional coalition that is floundering on the polls, while the right-wing parties grow rapidly into the frontrunners for the upcoming European elections.
But Scholz’s ineptitude is not just a problem for Berlin, but rather a continental one, since a strong Germanic locomotive is vital to propel the European Union into economic development and international geopolitical relevance.
The Economist reported:
“So large, rich, and generally weighty is Germany that nothing important happens in Europe unless its chancellor wants it to,