"It's time for the former chancellor to explain certain things"

Angela Merkel's reputation has been damaged in Germany in recent weeks, writes the Telegraph. "After the invasion of Ukraine, former ministers who served in her tenure, in turn, renounce its foreign policy," the paper writes.
"I never thought in my life that we would enter into such a crisis with Russia," said Wolfgang Schuble, a former finance minister during Merkel's term.
"I agreed we had to work with Russia. Today I know: I was wrong, we were all wrong."
"We are faced with bitter knowledge," said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was foreign minister under Angela Merkel. "We stuck to built bridges that Russia no longer believed in and that our partners warned us about. I was wrong, but I was not the only one," he said.
Still, the woman at the center of all these developments was defiant. Merkel made a brief statement condemning the invasion of Ukraine, but said she "stands by her 2008 decision" to block Ukraine's NATO membership. Besides, she said nothing more, leaving Germany to consider her legacy only a few months after she retired as one of the greatest chancellors in German history.
"Merkel's toxic legacy will occupy this country for a long time to come," thundered Alexander Marguerre, editor of the conservative magazine Cicero and longtime critic of Angela Merkel.
Asked whether Merkel had totally misunderstood Vladimir Putin during her 16 years in power, the deputy head of the Bundestag from the ranks of the CDU, Johan Vandelpoel, said that it was time for the former chancellor to explain some things. "I hope that Angela Merkel will soon find the time and opportunity to comment in more detail on her policy towards Russia," Vandelpoel said.
The war in Ukraine did not completely nullify her legacy, but...

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