Angela Merkel sounds like she is enjoying retirement.

She has pared back her schedule to little more than “feel-good” engagements and thinned out her once‑familiar array of coloured blazers, though gardening has proved beyond her.

“Some things take off, others don’t. I console myself that it always depends on the nature of the soil,” she told a podcast from Germany’s Focus magazine.

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