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...Merkel called for a new framework of order for the globalized economy, saying it is an issue that industrialized countries, emerging countries and developing countries all must address. “What kind of order does our new world need so that every individual can share in the fruits and in the progress of our society?� Merkel said in the opening address on January 25.
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Invoking the theme of freedom as key to economic growth - “We need more leeway, more freedom: not freedom from but freedom to� - Chancellor Merkel spoke to more than 2,300 participants, including heads of state and government and business and economic leaders from around the world.
She spoke of the priorities of her administration and of Germany’s G-8 presidency in 2006 and its upcoming EU presidency in 2007.
Government’s most important job today, Merkel said, is creating more leeway for creativity and entrepreneurship. Government has to know where to intervene and where to let go.
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Invoking the theme of freedom as key to economic growth - “We need more leeway, more freedom: not freedom from but freedom to� - Chancellor Merkel spoke to more than 2,300 participants, including heads of state and government and business and economic leaders from around the world.
She spoke of the priorities of her administration and of Germany’s G-8 presidency in 2006 and its upcoming EU presidency in 2007.
Government’s most important job today, Merkel said, is creating more leeway for creativity and entrepreneurship. Government has to know where to intervene and where to let go.
According to Business Week
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In astonishingly short time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has emerged as the most dynamic leader in Europe. That at least seemed to be the verdict of the applause meter at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 25. "You have given us hope for the first time in a long time," Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman and chief executive of Swiss food giant Nestlé (NSRGY ), told Merkel after she delivered the keynote address to a packed auditorium.
The UK Times Online noted that she used "language almost identical to that used by Margaret Thatcher when she was the British Prime Minister, the centre-right leader mapped out a U-turn in her country’s treasured social model, repeatedly emphasising that Germans must stop fearing the world, embrace freedom and learn to take responsibility for their own lives instead of looking to the State. "
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