Editing Angela Merkel (section)

=== Comparisons ===
As a woman who is a politician from a centre-right party and also a scientist, Merkel has been compared by many in the English-language press to 20th-century British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Thatcher also had a science degree from [[Oxford University]] in chemistry. Some have referred to her as "Iron Lady", "Iron Girl", and even "The Iron Frau", all alluding to Thatcher, whose nickname was "The Iron Lady". Political commentators have debated the precise extent to which their agendas are similar.<ref>{{cite news |last=Risen |first=Clay |date=5 July 2005 |title=Is Angela Merkel the next Maggie Thatcher? |newspaper=Slate |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2122001/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428223123/http://www.slate.com/id/2122001/ |archive-date=28 April 2009}}</ref> Later in her tenure, Merkel acquired the nickname ''"Mutti"'' (a German familiar form of "mother"). She has also been called the "Iron Chancellor", in reference to [[Otto von Bismarck]].<ref>{{cite news |date=26 November 2009 |title=The new iron chancellor |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/node/21540283 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124193154/http://www.economist.com/node/21540283 |archive-date=24 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Barro |first=Josh |date=18 August 2016 |title=Hillary is America's Merkel, but not in the way Trump thinks |work=[[Business Insider]] |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-merkel-donald-trump-2016-8 |url-status=live |access-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622061730/http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-merkel-donald-trump-2016-8 |archive-date=22 June 2018}}</ref>

''[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]]'' has criticised the "Iron Lady" nickname for Merkel as "wrong-headed", noting her pro-European stance, her efforts to combat "profit-seeking speculators" during the euro crisis, and her lacking Thatcher's "my-way-or-the-highway" attitude towards politics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spicer |first=Nick |date=9 March 2012 |title=Can we please stop calling Merkel the Iron Lady? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/3/9/can-we-please-stop-calling-merkel-the-iron-lady |access-date=30 July 2023 |website=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414081216/https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/3/9/can-we-please-stop-calling-merkel-the-iron-lady |archive-date=14 April 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>