With September elections looming, Merkel hit her homeland with a combative message to fellow Christian Democratic Union members jolted by the rise of her rival, Social Democrat Martin Schulz.
?You said we went to bed and woke up with Brexit; we went to bed and woke up with Trump,? Schulz, a teetotaller, told party members earlier in a beer tent in the Bavarian town of Vilshofen.
Ash Wednesday is a time in German politics when the gloves come off and candidates ramp up their rhetoric.
She also took a dig at Schulz and his party for being backward-looking and not standing by a labor-market overhaul pushed through under SPD?s Gerhard Schroeder in the last decade.
Those reforms, which alienated huge numbers of Social Democrats even though they?re credited with reducing German unemployment, still occupy the party to this day, she said.
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