Senior Writer
Willis Sparks
Senior Writer
Willis Sparks is a senior editor for GZERO Daily. He is also a Director in the Global Macro practice at Eurasia Group, where he has worked since 2005. He has made speeches on international politics on every continent except Antarctica. Willis holds degrees from Brown University, the Juilliard School, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He also holds an honorary degree from the Moscow Art Theatre School. A native of Macon, Georgia, Willis has worked as a stuntman at New York's Metropolitan Opera. As a child, he declined an opportunity to spend an afternoon riding the Great American Scream Machine, a rollercoaster, with Ronald McDonald, for money. He has never regretted that decision.
Feb 09, 2018
There are many observations worth making about news that Angela Merkel’s center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD agreed this week to form another “Grand Coalition” government. But for now, let’s just leave it at this:
Merkel’s decision to offer the SPD control of the Finance and Foreign Ministries suggests that Merkel means to use her fourth and final term as Germany’s chancellor to work with France’s President Emmanuel Macron on significant reform of the Eurozone. No guarantee it’ll work, of course, and SPD members have yet to approve the coalition agreement, but Merkel’s apparent willingness to try is worthy of note.
