Part 1 談政治情勢

Talks About Political Situations
Unit 01  梅克爾所領軍的歐盟

（Merkel Displays Leadership in EU )
巾幗不讓鬚眉

德國首位女性總理（Angela Porothe Merkel）

Angela Dorothe Merkel became chancellor of Germany in 2005,assuming the first female prime ministry in history and a federal leaderfrom East Germany. Following former British Prime Minister, MargaretThatcher, Merkel now ranks as the most influential female politician inEurope and is called “the Iron Lady of Germany.”

梅克爾 於2005 年開始擔任德國史上首位女性聯邦總理，也是第一位出身前東德地區的聯邦總理。梅克爾 是歐洲繼英國前首相柴契爾夫人後，最影響力的女性政治家暨領導人，也有人稱之為「德國鐵娘子」。
成長背景（Growth Background）

Merkel was born on July 17, 1954 in Hamburg with the full name of Angela Dorothea Kasner. “Merkel” is the surname of her first husband while it is still kept after divorced. Her father was a clergyman of the Lutheran Church. After she was born, the family moved to Templin,about 80 kilometers north from East Berlin, as her father received a new assignment from the church, and Merkel completed her primary education there. She majored in physics at the Carl Marks University in Leipzig (1973-1978) and acquired her Ph.D. in quantum chemistry (1990).

梅克爾1954 年7 月17 日誕生於漢堡，全名安格拉‧ 多羅特婭‧ 卡斯納（Angela Dorothea Kasner）。梅克爾是她第一任丈夫的姓氏，離婚後保留下來。她父親是一位路德教會牧師，在她出生後不久，由於父親從教會接到新的任命，全家移居東德東柏林以北80 公里的Templin，她在那裡完成初等教育。她在萊比錫卡爾‧馬克思大學攻讀物理學（1973 年－ 1978 年），之後在科學院物理化學中央學會工作學習（1978 年－ 1990 年），後來取得博士學位，研究領域是量子化學。