The future (also Italian) by Angela Merkel

He has been preparing for this moment for at least two years. Angela Merkel he had long known that he would leave his role. No more chancellor after 16 years at the top of European and world power. His bags are ready, the real ones and the emotional and personal ones.

She already congratulated on Monday Olaf Scholz for his electoral success, the leader of the Social Democrats who won in his wake. During the election campaign there was talk of a new chancellor, not a chancellor. Angela Merkel has not yet left the Chancellorship because the new coalition that has come out of the polls is not yet official.

Instead, he has already left his party, the CDU.

“The Chancellor will continue her work until a new federal government is in office,” spokesman Steffen Seibert said. On the agenda, however, there are appointments that feel like a farewell. He will be in Rome next Thursday, 7 October, to meet Mario Draghi and Pope Francis. For the Chancellor, a tour departs from Rome that will also take her to the rest of Europe.

Angela Merkel will dine with the president of the advise after an interview at Palazzo Chigi. The themes are Europe, Italy-Germany relations, the Libyan question, the G20 at the end of October and that of the 12th on Afghanistan.

It may not be the Chancellor’s last trip to Italy. Merkel and her husband have always come on vacation to us. In South Tyrol and Ischia. Turin could be added to these goals. Professor Joachim Sauer, an internationally renowned quantum chemist, has a new position at the University of the Piedmontese city. He was already a visiting professor, but now his commitment will be greater.

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