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Angela Merkel, German chancellor, is Time 'Person of the Year' | |
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Time Magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its "Person of the Year". | |
The magazine cited her role in Europe's crises over migration and Greek debt. | |
Ms Merkel had provided "steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply", editor Nancy Gibbs wrote. | |
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named runner-up and third place went to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump. | |
Eclectic list | |
Ms Gibbs wrote of Mrs Merkel: "For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is 'Time's Person of the Year'." | |
Citing the refugee and Greek economic crises, along with the Paris terror attacks, Ms Gibbs said: "Each time Merkel stepped in. Germany would bail Greece out, on her strict terms. It would welcome refugees as casualties of radical Islamist savagery, not carriers of it. | |
"And it would deploy troops abroad in the fight against ISIS [Islamic State]. You can agree with her or not, but she is not taking the easy road. Leaders are tested only when people don't want to follow." | |
Ms Merkel joins an eclectic list of former winners, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon. | |
She is only the fourth woman since 1927 to be named winner and the first in 29 years. | |
Last year's award went to medics fighting the Ebola outbreak in western Africa. | Last year's award went to medics fighting the Ebola outbreak in western Africa. |
Time Person of the Year 2015 |