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"Chancellor Merkel's Shellacking"

Editorial, New York Times | April 1, 2010

Mrs. Merkel should draw the right lessons from the lost state elections and follow her and Germany’s principles and larger interests. ++ "Although NATO has long been the linchpin of Germany’s defense plans, she ostentatiously removed German ships in the Mediterranean from NATO command to keep them clear of operations in Libya." ++ Mrs. Merkel’s predecessors rightly believed that Germany’s prosperity was tied to the EU and its  security tied to NATO, but now "it is becoming increasingly hard to figure out what Mrs. Merkel believes."