Chancellor Angela Merkel had to interrupt a TV interview on Monday night after feeling dizzy.<br /><br /> But after a short break and something to eat and drink she carried on.<br /><br /> The German leader was speaking to ZDF television, one of a series of interviews ahead of Tuesday’s congress of her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) party.<br /><br /> “The chancellor was feeling unwell for a moment – then had something to eat and drink before continuing with the interview after that,” CDU spokesman Steffen Seibert said in response to a report in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.<br /><br /> Merkel is set to be re-elected as party leader for an eighth two-year term.<br /><br /> Last time round in 2012 she secured 97.9 percent of the vote, and with no opponent this time the only question is how big the score will be.<br /><br /> Now in her third term as German Chancellor, Angela Merkel’s dominant position is stronger than ever.<br /><br /> She sits abreast a ruling coalition of her own Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (SPD) that has 80 percent of the seats in the Bundestag.<br /><br /> In a recent poll two-thirds of Germans gave her a positive rating, and another survey suggested a majority wanted her to run for a fourth term as Chancellor in 2017.<br /><br /> In Europe Germany is a regional superpower and Merkel’s views dominate. <br /><br /> Indebted southern European countries have been forced into drastic austerity measures.<br /><br /> In a newspaper interview at the weekend, the Chancellor criticised France and Italy for failing to go far enough with economic reforms.
