Freedom
E-book, Czech
Freedom
Political memoirs of the decade
Life in the GDR, memories of Prague, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, Obama, Trump and Biden, Putin and Zelensky, occupation of Crimea, climate conference, economic challenges, covid, the war in Ukraine...
Over 90 photographs from the author's personal archive.
Angela Merkel has been at the head of the German government for sixteen years and has shaped German, European and international politics and society through her actions and attitudes. In his memoirs, he looks back at life in two German states - the GDR until 1990 and the reunified Germany since 1990. How did she, a woman from the East, manage to lead the CDU and become the first Chancellor of a united Germany? And how did it come to be one of the most powerful governments in the Western world? What inspired her?
In her book, Svoboda describes daily life in the Chancellery as well as the dramatic days and nights when she took decisions of major importance in Berlin, Brussels and other places. It charts the evolution of international cooperation and reveals the pressures politicians are under today as they seek solutions to complex problems in a globalised world. He gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of international politics and explains how crucial personal conversations can be - and where their limits lie.
Angela Merkel reflects on the conditions for political decision-making at a time of increasing confrontation. Her memoir offers a unique perspective on the mechanisms of power and is a determined defence of freedom.
They wrote about the book:
You don't have to love or admire this politician, but the book is definitely worth reading. Merkel has been present at everything important that has happened in world politics in the last decades. In the first part of the book, she also goes back to an earlier time when she lived in East Germany - behind the Iron Curtain. She also recalls her time in Prague in the 1980s, when she was finishing her doctorate there.
- Martin Vopěnka, owner of the publishing house Práh
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021, became the first woman to hold the country's most influential political office. Born in 1954 in Hamburg, she grew up in the GDR, where she studied physics and earned a PhD. In 1990 she was elected to the Bundestag. She was Federal Minister for Women and Youth Affairs from 1991-1994, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 1994-1998 and President of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany from 2000-2018. She retired from active politics in 2021.
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Práh s.r.o., Patočkova 2386/85, 16900 Praha 6 - Břevnov, Česká republika, 233 356 761, www.prah.cz, [email protected]
