Berlin - Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday it will take Germany a decade to rebuild the country's distinctive economic system. In the sixties, Merkel joined the "Pionierorganisation Ernst Thälmann" and the "Freie Deutschen Jugend (FDJ)", and took her "Jugendweihe". A star organiser in the FDJ, she worked hard and achieved constantly high grades. She was top of the class, winning a trip to Moscow because of her exceptional performance in Russian. At Leipzig University, where she studied physics, she was an enthusiastic member of the FDJ, became "Kreisleitungsmitglied" and was in charge of agitation and propaganda for the young Communists: „FDJ Sekretärin für Agitation und Propaganda“. Merkel was a brilliant student, graduating as a doctor of physics. For political reasons, she often travelled within the Soviet bloc, above all to Moscow.