Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Free World" in English language version.
Merkel, however, probably doesn't fit the bill. Weakened by the last election, she has found herself embroiled in the longest coalition talks in Germany's post-World War II history. Even if she's back on top by Easter, global leadership will be pretty far from her mind as she settles into what's likely to be her last term in power. She doesn't even have an obvious successor in her party. Besides, she has always shown much more interest in shaping the European Union to Germany's benefit than in leading the world, free or otherwise.
The G20 underscored more emphatically than ever before that there is no one leader of the free world anymore.
Once Mr Kohl's protégée, the chancellor of his reunified Germany is sometimes dubbed the "leader of the free world" in the Anglo-Saxon media. Yet such epithets get things wrong.
Wide use of labels such as 'Free World,' is, itself, a form of propaganda intended to influence particular audiences.
The idea of one 'leader of the free world" will soon come to seem very quaint indeed.'
The idea of one 'leader of the free world" will soon come to seem very quaint indeed.'
Months after being hailed by media as the new leader of the free world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing the greatest political crisis of her 12 years in office.
The term "free world" is a propaganda term coined in the 1930s, initially as a slogan against the rise of fascism.
If the leader of the free world stops by to answer questions from your users, you're probably doing O.K.
The fear of a xenophobic populist in the White House has liberals everywhere looking to Berlin for moral guidance. They tout Angela Merkel as the new torchbearer for human rights. They call her the next leader of the free world.
The German chancellor may have become the hero of liberals and democrats around the globe, but she is unable to fulfill the expectations placed on her as the putative "leader of the free world," at least not when it comes to power politics. Even Merkel's psychological deftness in dealing with the posturing potentates of the world isn't enough to make up for the fact that Germany is not a global power when it comes to foreign and security policy. America, it seems, will remain the world's power broker for the time being.
If Merkel was supposed to be the leader of the free world in the era of Trump and Brexit then what might the future look like without her?
Many commentators even began referring to Merkel as the new leader of the free world, a title that she dismissed as 'grotesque' and 'absurd'.
With the election of Donald Trump, the joke has been that Merkel, not the sitting U.S. president, is the leader of the free world ...
... the idea that Germany is somehow going to rise to displace the U.S. in global leadership is utterly ludicrous. It lacks the means, intent, and credibility to do so.
Now, she is being hailed as the 'leader of the free world' on social media and by some commentators as the Obama era nears its end, Britain is beset by upheavals over plans to leave the European Union and France faces its own break-the-mold populist surge.
Wide use of labels such as 'Free World,' is, itself, a form of propaganda intended to influence particular audiences.
'Ein deutscher Bundeskanzlerkann nie "der Führer der freien Welt" sein' ...
Als 'absurd und grotesk' hat sie den Gedanken zurückgewiesen, die Führung des Westens könne vom amerikanischen Präsidenten auf den deutschen Regierungschef übergehen. Eigentlich eine pure Selbstverständlichkeit, aber vielleicht wären andere für die Schmeichelei empfänglich gewesen. ['Absurd and grotesque' is how she rejected the idea that leadership of the West could be transferred from the American president to the German head of government. Which goes without saying, really, but others might have been more receptive to such flattery.]
