德國總理默克爾在出席活動時全身發抖 ，這是她十天以來第二次在公眾場合出現類似情形。不過其發言人堅持表示她的身體無恙。
Angela Merkel has been seen trembling again during a ceremony in Berlin, eight days after a similar incident.
Stufen By Hermann Hesse, 1941
https://hcshakespeare.blogspot.com/2019/06/stufen-by-hermann-hesse-1941.html
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由於哈佛大學2019年的班級最後一次聚集在周四下午的畢業典禮上，德國總理默克爾告誡新畢業生不要理所當然。
“我們的個人自由不是恩惠。民主不是我們可以理所當然的事情。主要發言人默克爾說，既不是和平，也不是繁榮。 “但如果我們打破了讓我們陷入困境的牆壁，如果我們走出空地並有勇氣接受新的開端，一切皆有可能。”
默克爾主要用德語講話，她的言論定期翻譯成英文，默克爾從她自己非凡的生活故事中脫穎而出，成為共產主義東德的35歲科學家，他在新統一的國家政治體系中崛起成為德國第一位女性總理和許多分析家認為，自由世界的領導者。她敦促新畢業生承擔風險，做出深思熟慮的決定，並堅持核心價值觀。
她回憶起她每天下班回家途中經過柏林牆時感到沮喪。它是鋼鐵和混凝土的屏障，將城市，人民和家庭，包括她自己的家庭分開。
“每天，我都不得不在最後一分鍾離開自由，”她在早年就說，在哈佛大學校友會（HAA）年會期間向畢業生和校友發表的35分鐘演講中在三百週年劇院的人群。
三百週年紀念劇院的人潮湧動迎接德國總理安吉拉默克爾。
Kris Snibbe /哈佛職員攝影師
“柏林牆限制了我的機會。它完全符合我的方式。然而，這些年來這座牆無法做到這一點：它不能對我的內心思想，個性，想像力，夢想和慾望施加限制。“
事實上，隨著共產主義的崩潰，1989年牆壁出人意料地下降不僅結束了分裂的德國，它給默克爾帶來了新的可能性，包括有機會成為她從未想像過的人。 “一扇門突然打開了”，“我能夠越過這個邊界，冒險進入大開闊的地方，”她回憶說。
她告訴觀眾，她從這種變革經驗中學到的是“任何看似一成不變的東西都可以改變”，並且他們應該接近他們在生活中不可避免地遇到的牆壁，無論是身體，社交，類似的，知識的或文化的。
在早晨練習中，德國總理因其在世界舞台上的堅定領導以及對民主理想和國際合作的堅定捍衛而被授予法律榮譽博士學位。
默克爾的言論更多的是傳統的畢業演講而非政治演說，確實觸及了幾個主題外交政策問題。她吹噓歐盟和多邊主義的好處，跨大西洋與美國關係的重要性，即“基於民主價值觀和人權”，以及 - 隨著歐洲支持可能與美國發生貿易衝突 - 共同繁榮國際自由貿易的結果。
安吉拉·默克爾（Angela Merkel）的35分鐘演講結束了掌聲。
羅斯林肯/哈佛職員攝影師
儘管默克爾長期以來作為財政大使！！！長達14年，但在上週的歐洲議會選舉中，默克爾自己的中右翼政黨基督教民主聯盟看到選民支持（最右邊和最左邊的政黨）受到侵蝕。在一次電視採訪中，默克爾表示，在行動中實行民主是應對歐洲崛起的民粹主義反民主運動所帶來的危險的最佳方式，同時承認氣候變化現在是一個決定性的政治問題，特別是對於年輕的德國人。
也許在對這一現實的點頭中，默克爾將於2021年離開辦公室，承諾她將“竭盡全力”確保德國在2050年實現氣候中和。
在這個急躁和即時滿足的時代，默克爾敦促畢業生和校友考慮他們為什麼要做出決定，特別是在技術方面。她說，作為財政大臣！！！，她經常問自己，她是否正在做某事，因為它是正確的，或者因為它是可能的。
“這也是你需要不斷問自己的事情，”她說。 “我們是在製！定技術規則，還是技術決定我們的行為方式？”
作為一位商議！！！(深思熟慮 )領袖，默克爾建議畢業生在思考決策時需要更多時間，這個過程需要“勇氣和真實”來處理他人。
“也許最重要的是，它要求我們對自己誠實。還有什麼比這裡更好的地方，在這個地方，來自世界各地的許多年輕人來到這個地方，在真理的格言下學習，研究和討論我們時代的問題？這要求我們不要將謊言描述為謊言的真相和真相，“她說，起立鼓掌。
BY Christina PazzaneseHarvard Staff Writer
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/05/at-harvard-commencement-merkel-tells-grads-break-the-walls-that-hem-you-in/
DATEMay 30, 2019
As Harvard’s Class of 2019 gathered for the last time at Commencement Thursday afternoon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned the new graduates to take nothing for granted.
“Our individual liberties are not givens. Democracy is not something we can take for granted. Neither is peace, and neither is prosperity,” said Merkel, the main speaker. “But if we break down the walls that hem us in, if we step out into the open and have the courage to embrace new beginnings, everything is possible.”
Speaking primarily in German, with her remarks periodically translated into English, Merkel drew from her own remarkable life story as a 35-year-old scientist in communist East Germany who rose through the ranks of the newly unified state’s political system to become Germany’s first woman chancellor and, many analysts would argue, leader of the free world. She urged the new graduates to take risks, make thoughtful decisions, and hold onto core values.
She recalled her frustration at walking past the Berlin Wall every day on her way home from work. It was a barrier of steel and concrete that divided the city, its people, and its families, including her own.
“Every day, I had to turn away from freedom at the last minute,” she said of her early years, during a 35-minute speech to the graduates and alumni during the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) before an overflow crowd at Tercentenary Theatre.
An overflow crowd at Tercentenary Theatre greets German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
“The Berlin Wall limited my opportunities. It quite literally stood in my way. However, there was one thing which this wall couldn’t do through all those years: It couldn’t impose limits on my inner thoughts, my personality, my imagination, my dreams and desires.”
Indeed, the wall’s unexpected fall in 1989 with the collapse of communism not only ended a divided Germany, it presented Merkel with new possibilities, including a chance to become someone she never imagined she could be. “A door suddenly opened” and “I was able to cross this border and venture out in to the great wide open,” she recalled.
What she learned from that transformative experience, she told the audience, was that “anything that seems set in stone or inalterable can indeed change,” and that they ought to approach the walls they’ll inevitably encounter in their lives, whether physical, social, intellectual, or cultural, in similar fashion.
During Morning Exercises, the German chancellor was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree for her resolute leadership on the world stage and her unwavering defense of democratic ideals and international cooperation.
More a traditional commencement speech than a political address, Merkel’s remarks did touch on several topical foreign-policy issues. She touted the benefits of the European Union and multilateralism, the importance of a transatlantic relationship with the U.S. that is “based on democratic values and human rights,” and — as Europe braces for a possible trade clash with the U.S. — mutual prosperity as a result of international free trade.
Angela Merkel's 35-minute speech ends on a wave of applause.
Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
Despite her longstanding popularity as chancellor for 14 years, Merkel’s own center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, saw an erosion of voter support (to parties on both the far right and far left) in last week’s elections to the European Parliament. In a television interview, Merkel said showing democracy in action was the best way to confront the dangers posed by Europe’s rising populist, anti-democratic movements, while conceding that climate change is now a decisive political issue, particularly for young Germans.
Perhaps in a nod to that reality, Merkel, who will leave office in 2021, pledged that she would “do everything in my power” to ensure that Germany achieves climate neutrality by 2050.
In this era of impatience and instant gratification, Merkel urged the graduates and alumni to consider why they’re making decisions, particularly around technology. As chancellor, she said, she often asks herself whether she’s doing something because it is right or because it is possible.
“That is something you, too, need to keep asking yourselves,” she said. “Are we laying down the rules for technology, or is technology dictating how we act?”
A deliberative leader, Merkel suggested graduates take more time when thinking through decisions, a process that will require “courage and truthfulness” in how they deal with others.
“And perhaps most importantly, it calls for us to be honest with ourselves. What better place to begin to do so than here, in this place where so many young people from all over the world come to learn, research, and discuss the issues of our time under the maxim of truth? That requires us not to describe lies as truth and truth as lies,” she said, to a standing ovation.
In parting, Merkel advised graduates to go out into the world and “tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness, for nothing has to stay as it is.”
DATEMay 30, 2019
As Harvard’s Class of 2019 gathered for the last time at Commencement Thursday afternoon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned the new graduates to take nothing for granted.
“Our individual liberties are not givens. Democracy is not something we can take for granted. Neither is peace, and neither is prosperity,” said Merkel, the main speaker. “But if we break down the walls that hem us in, if we step out into the open and have the courage to embrace new beginnings, everything is possible.”
Speaking primarily in German, with her remarks periodically translated into English, Merkel drew from her own remarkable life story as a 35-year-old scientist in communist East Germany who rose through the ranks of the newly unified state’s political system to become Germany’s first woman chancellor and, many analysts would argue, leader of the free world. She urged the new graduates to take risks, make thoughtful decisions, and hold onto core values.
She recalled her frustration at walking past the Berlin Wall every day on her way home from work. It was a barrier of steel and concrete that divided the city, its people, and its families, including her own.
“Every day, I had to turn away from freedom at the last minute,” she said of her early years, during a 35-minute speech to the graduates and alumni during the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) before an overflow crowd at Tercentenary Theatre.
An overflow crowd at Tercentenary Theatre greets German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
“The Berlin Wall limited my opportunities. It quite literally stood in my way. However, there was one thing which this wall couldn’t do through all those years: It couldn’t impose limits on my inner thoughts, my personality, my imagination, my dreams and desires.”
Indeed, the wall’s unexpected fall in 1989 with the collapse of communism not only ended a divided Germany, it presented Merkel with new possibilities, including a chance to become someone she never imagined she could be. “A door suddenly opened” and “I was able to cross this border and venture out in to the great wide open,” she recalled.
What she learned from that transformative experience, she told the audience, was that “anything that seems set in stone or inalterable can indeed change,” and that they ought to approach the walls they’ll inevitably encounter in their lives, whether physical, social, intellectual, or cultural, in similar fashion.
During Morning Exercises, the German chancellor was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree for her resolute leadership on the world stage and her unwavering defense of democratic ideals and international cooperation.
More a traditional commencement speech than a political address, Merkel’s remarks did touch on several topical foreign-policy issues. She touted the benefits of the European Union and multilateralism, the importance of a transatlantic relationship with the U.S. that is “based on democratic values and human rights,” and — as Europe braces for a possible trade clash with the U.S. — mutual prosperity as a result of international free trade.
Angela Merkel's 35-minute speech ends on a wave of applause.
Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
Despite her longstanding popularity as chancellor for 14 years, Merkel’s own center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, saw an erosion of voter support (to parties on both the far right and far left) in last week’s elections to the European Parliament. In a television interview, Merkel said showing democracy in action was the best way to confront the dangers posed by Europe’s rising populist, anti-democratic movements, while conceding that climate change is now a decisive political issue, particularly for young Germans.
Perhaps in a nod to that reality, Merkel, who will leave office in 2021, pledged that she would “do everything in my power” to ensure that Germany achieves climate neutrality by 2050.
In this era of impatience and instant gratification, Merkel urged the graduates and alumni to consider why they’re making decisions, particularly around technology. As chancellor, she said, she often asks herself whether she’s doing something because it is right or because it is possible.
“That is something you, too, need to keep asking yourselves,” she said. “Are we laying down the rules for technology, or is technology dictating how we act?”
A deliberative leader, Merkel suggested graduates take more time when thinking through decisions, a process that will require “courage and truthfulness” in how they deal with others.
“And perhaps most importantly, it calls for us to be honest with ourselves. What better place to begin to do so than here, in this place where so many young people from all over the world come to learn, research, and discuss the issues of our time under the maxim of truth? That requires us not to describe lies as truth and truth as lies,” she said, to a standing ovation.
In parting, Merkel advised graduates to go out into the world and “tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness, for nothing has to stay as it is.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Harvard graduates not to act on “first impulses” or to brandish “lies as truth and truth as lies.”
默克爾10月突然以CDU地選成績差為理由而宣布年底不角逐連任黨魁時，很多人以為她已沒落。美國WSJ在11月初報導，默克爾此舉其實是暗算國會議長蕭伯樂，因為對方已準備好時機一到，便把默克爾拉下馬，把Merz推上台，而她在蕭伯樂出手前先自行求退，令蕭伯樂和Merz沒有時間做準備，好讓自己在反正無論如何幾年內都要退下的情況下，仍能控制自己何時退場，並確保自己的政策路線不會被大幅動搖。從「小默克爾」AKK接棒來「事後孔明」，默克爾的政治計謀仍不能低估。
默克爾即將謝幕，政治遺產蒙塵 |
德國總理安格拉·默克爾領導的基督教民主聯盟今天將在漢堡舉行全國大會，選舉該黨領袖，也就是默克爾的繼任者。
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默克爾領導基民盟18年，領導德國13年，曾被認為是歐洲穩定的壓艙石和西方自由秩序的最後捍衛者 。她幫助德國自兩次世界大戰以來首次成為歐洲領導力量，帶領她的國家和歐洲大陸度過一系列危機，並走進一個黃金時代。
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但最終， 默克爾的政治遺產可能會歸結為兩件事：她決定在2015年歡迎逾100萬移民進入德國，並對歐洲鄰國實施經濟緊縮。一些人認為，它們可能幫助播下瞭如今正在撕裂歐洲的痛苦和怨恨的種子。
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Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (
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