Merkel to write own memoirs with longtime adviser
"She wants to explain key political decisions in her own words"
10 December, 15:24The notoriously discreet Baumann wrote some of Merkel's most important speeches and also took part in strategic decision-making. According to Baumann, the project will take two to three years and there are no plans for support from external authors. "The chancellor and I were quite certain: if we were going to do this book, we would do it alone -- without ghost writers, without historians, without journalists," Baumann said.
(ANSA-AFP).