Bertrand Benoit is the Financial Times’ Berlin bureau chief, having previously covered corporate news for the paper in Frankfurt. Prior to joining the FT in 1997, he was Brussels correspondent for The European. He was born in Vichy, France in 1972.
As Germany prepares to elect a new federal government, polls show Chancellor Angela Merkel is more popular than any of her predecessors – and her own Christian Democratic Party. Bertrand Benoit reports