Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel During the crisis in Ukraine, there were frank negotiations and rooted, dropping diplomatic conventions and frequently turning into elevated tones. So writes in the new biographical book “Angela Merkel. Chancellor and her time” Historian and journalist Ralph Mums, reports TASS.
“2014 telephone conversations often had the character of the duel, it was on the merits,” the most misfortunes.
“Putin became very emotional situations, gambling …” said the biographer. “They said all each other in the face. … both openly communicated with each other, neglected by the generally accepted rules of diplomacy. In other words, sometimes they moved. on elevated tones. “
In 2014, Merkel dozens times called with the Russian president, “from the Federal Office of the Printing, public statements were followed by regarding 27 such negotiations,” the author approves.
Master also claims that Merkel wanted against the background of a crisis in Ukraine to unite the EU countries around anti-Russian sanctions. However, he notes, the calculation of Europe that the increase in prices for products in Russia as a result of mutual sanctions will lead to a decrease in the popularity of the president, not justified.
The book also described that Merkel in 2015 was afraid of the exit of Greece from the euro zone even more than in 2012 at the peak of the debt crisis. According to the author, she feared the rapprochement of Athens with Moscow.