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Line 196: In the [[2005 German federal election\|2005 elections]], [[Angela Merkel]] became the first female chancellor. In 2009 the German government approved a €50 billion stimulus plan.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20090106-germany-agrees-new-50-billion-euro-stimulus-plan \|title=Germany agrees on 50-billion-euro stimulus plan \|date=6 January 2009 \|work=France 24 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513022443/http://www.france24.com/en/20090106-germany-agrees-new-50-billion-euro-stimulus-plan \|archive-date=13 May 2011}}</ref> Among the major German political projects of the early 21st century are the advancement of [[European integration]], the [[Energy transition in Germany\|energy transition]] ({{lang\|de\|Energiewende}}) for a [[sustainable energy]] supply, the "[[Balanced budget amendment#Germany\|Debt Brake]]" for balanced budgets, measures to increase the [[Ageing of Europe#Germany\|fertility rate]] ([[Natalistic politics\|pronatalism]]), and high-tech strategies for the transition of the German economy, summarised as [[Industry 4.0]].<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/merkel-regierungserklaerung110.html \|title=Government declaration by Angela Merkel \|date=29 January 2014 \|publisher=ARD Tagesschau \|language=German \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101010608/http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/merkel-regierungserklaerung110.html \|archive-date=1 January 2015}}</ref> During the [[2015 European migrant crisis]], the country took in over a million refugees and migrants.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34131911 \|title=Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained in seven charts \|date=28 January 2016 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131030536/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34131911 \|archive-date=31 January 2016\|publisher=BBC}}</ref> Angela Merkel ended her four terms long chancellorship amidst the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], which Germany tackled with a variety of political measures in labor and economy, as well as with a national vaccination program, distributing a selection of modern [[MRNA vaccine\|MRNA vaccines]], including the [[Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine]] ''Tozinameran,'' which itself was developed in Germany by two decorated German scientists of migrant descent. During the pandemic, long-holding problems within the German society, like [[Inequality in Germany\|income inequality]] and a certain technological backwardness, as well as a developing schism inbetween the Germans themselves, became obvious: while most Germans supported the government's science-oriented and economy-supporting measures to combat the pandemic, a few mobilized for protests against measures and vaccination and engaged in spreading false information or otherwise endangering public health. The [[2021 German federal election\|2021 elections]] resulted Merkel's conservative party [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany\|CDU]] to yield power to a coalition of [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|social democrats]], [[Alliance 90/The Greens\|greens]] and [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)\|liberals]] led by [[Olaf Scholz]] as her successor. His government faces the ongoing transition of Germany to a digitalized and sustainable industry, as well as developing [[2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis\|conflicts with Russia on Europe's east end]]. == Geography ==

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