Angela Merkel is a cautious, centrist politician with a genius for identifying and implementing consensus within the German public. Her long and mostly tranquil reign as Chancellor is largely due to her ability to appropriate popular ideas of the Social Democrats, who have steadily lost ground in the polls as a result of their inability to stake out clear ideological differences with her. Unfortunately, she has been unable to find an acceptable resolution to the EU’s ongoing difficulties, particularly over immigration, and she is likely to lose power in the near future as a result.
She sounds like her historical twin, Sir Robert Walpole.