Angela has a Grumpus too
German chancellor Angela Merkel’s greatest accomplishment in advance of this week’s G-8 summit had nothing to do with global warming or easing tensions with Russia, reports the Washington Post. Rather, it was just persuading her reclusive husband to show up.
Since his wife’s election, Sauer — whose name means “sour” or “grumpy” in German — has issued no public statements, granted zero interviews and has only occasionally been seen in public with his wife. So it was big news in Germany when he agreed to serve as an official host during the Group of Eight summit and appear in public to face the cameras, a chore he clearly dislikes.
On Thursday, Sauer took the wives of other national leaders on a tour of cultural and historical sites along the northern German coastline. First stop: a 19th-century castle in the village of Hohen Demzin, where the group of seven first ladies and one first gentleman had lunch and heard a lecture on demographic trends in industrialized nations.
Awwwww.
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