Angela Merkel was named Time magazine's person of the year. From the surprise decision on Syrian refugees to the world leadership that she has managed to build over the years, the German chancellor has defeated all her opponents, winning the cover of the US magazine, the 93rd since the award was established, the title of which leaves room for doubt: “Angela Merkel, chancellor of a free world”.
The choice was explained by director Nancy Gibbs who underlined the role played by the German chancellor in a delicate year like the current one: "In a year in which world leaders have been tested throughout the year, no one it was like her,” Gibbs said. At the head of Germany since 2005, Angela Merkel has managed to win the favor of the international press not only for the way she has dealt with the international economic crisis, but also for her stance on the refugee emergency, "she firmly opposed the tyranny and has provided resolute moral leadership in a world that is short of it,” reads the article in which Time explains the choice for the “person of the year”.
Angela Merkel has been rewarded “for welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees and for managing the European debt crisis”. For "asking for more than most of his country's politicians would have dared to". "For demonstrating resolute moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply." And for "his leadership in having promoted and maintained an open and borderless Europe in the face of the economic crisis and that of refugees".
