GERMANY
Berlin—First there was Brexit, then Donald Trump. Could Germany be next? As hard-right nationalist movements surge across the Western world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced she will run for a fourth term in the September 2017 election. Winning will not be easy. Germany is grappling with a surge of migrants and refugees, as well as the fallout from Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. Yet Merkel rejects the idea that she’s liberalism’s last hope. “That is grotesque, even almost absurd,” she told the press.