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What does Angela Merkel saying nine to another term as Germany's Chancellor mean for the country and the European Union?

And is Brazil's new far-right populist president as good for markets as investors reckon?

These are the questions we'll be tackling on this week's views room,

a weekly conversation among Breaking View's colonists about the ups and downs of the world of finance.

I'm Anthony Curry, and with me here is my co-host, Jennifer Saber.

Hi, Jen.

Hello.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling it quits.

During her 13 years running the world's fourth largest economy,

she has become the de facto leader of the European Union and of late the free world,

as well as a ballwork against populism.

Joining us from London is Global Breaking Views, economics editor Swaha Patnike,

to discuss this pivotal announcement.

Welcome, Swaha.

Hi, Jen. Hello.

So, Swaha, as an American, I need you to kind of set this up for me because I'm not quite

clear on exactly what's happening here. So she's not going to run as chancellor, but she's also

stepping down from her party's leadership. Can you just

kind of explain quickly how this works in Germany? Of course. So Merkel has up till now been very

trenchant on the fact that whoever runs the party is the chancellor. What she's doing is she's stepping

down as chairwoman of her party.

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