You can’t look that quickly, and a year has just whizzed by, in no time. A lot has happened and a lot hasn’t happened, as a few quotes here may remind you of. “It was an honor,” said the black ex-chancellor at the beginning of the year, the one who did not want to negotiate a coalition with the Blues. Who preferred to write a book and is now allowed to serve as Vice President of the European Investment Bank even without banking or financial market experience.
