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| Angela Merkel, German chancellor, is Time 'Person of the Year' | 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". | 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. | The magazine cited her role in Europe's crises over migration and Greek debt. |
| Mrs 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. | Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named runner-up and third place went to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump. |
| Eclectic list | 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'." | 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. | 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. |
| Time Person of the Year 2015 | Time Person of the Year 2015 |
| "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." | |
| The magazine also noted her leadership during what it called Russian President Vladimir Putin's "creeping theft of Ukraine". | |
| Mrs Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said: "I am sure the chancellor will cherish this as an incentive in her job." | |
| Mrs Merkel, 61, 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 an individual winner outright and the first in 29 years. | |
| The other individual women to win were Wallis Simpson (1936), Queen Elizabeth II (1952) and Corazon Aquino (1986). | |
| Soong Mei-ling won jointly with her husband Chiang Kai-shek in 1937, three women won as Whistleblowers in 2002 and the award went generically to American Women in 1975. | |
| It has gone to other generic groups in the past too, including last year's award which went to medics fighting the Ebola outbreak in western Africa. |