German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. File photoBERLIN, Aug 11 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that he willingly called up his predecessor in this post, Angela Merkel, but he himself, even in the current difficult situation for the country, works in this position «with «I'm happy to call her, but I'm also happy to be chancellor,» Scholz said Thursday at his first big press conference as chancellor, when asked by a journalist if he misses Merkel in the background a large number of crises in the country. Merkel, who left the post of head of the German government in 2021, served as chancellor of Germany for 16 years, since 2005. />Scholz answered the question about Putin's possible visit to Germany
