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Angela Merkel

30/06/2016

BBC World Service - Witness History, Angela Merkel

A look back at the career of the German Chancellor before she became a politician.

Before she became the most powerful politician in Europe, Angela Merkel had an entirely separate career as a chemist, in Communist East Germany.

As Britain begins to negotiate its exit from the European Union we're looking back at the early career of one of the key players in those negotiations, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. She started her career, not in politics, but as a chemist in a laboratory in Communist East Germany. Lucy Burns has spoken to someone who worked alongside her in the days before she took up politics.

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