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"Under Merkel he's developed an extremely independent role," said Ulrich Deupmann, author of a biography of Mr. Schäuble.

But Germany as a whole is slowly catching up with the east: daycare nurseries have expanded considerably under Merkel.

The biting criticism that the SPD had become virtually indistinguishable from the centre-right CDU was not helped by SPD's participation in the grand coalition under Merkel.

Seventy-six per cent of the 475,000 party members who voted in the ballot agreed to a deal to form a coalition government under Merkel.

(The SPD's leader, Peer Steinbrück, who was the finance minister under Merkel from 2005 to 2009, has said he won't serve in such a government again).

The government under Merkel has done its utmost in the past four years to ensure that Europe emerges stronger from the financial and economic crisis.

Europe used to depend on a Germany that was instinctively European, and yet this pillar of the European Union has, first under Gerhard Schroder and then under Mrs Merkel, done bilateral deals with Moscow that have undercut efforts to present Russia with a united front on energy supplies.

Despite being confined to a wheelchair since a deranged man shot him three times in an assassination attempt in 1990, he has proven perhaps the most consistently influential politician in Germany since its reunification that same year, serving in key positions first under Helmut Kohl and now under Mrs. Merkel.

It will not happen under Mrs. Merkel.

In fact, under Mrs. Merkel, the state has thrived, not retreated.

And Germany's dealings with Russia arouse less suspicion under Mrs Merkel than they did when Mr Schröder was chancellor.