Merkel: Europe should take its fate into own hands

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While Britain and America remain friends, European nations must rely more on themselves, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a rally of voters in Munich. She said she got this feeling after meeting world leaders at the recently concluded G7 summit in Italy.

"The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I've experienced that in the last few days," she told the crowd Sunday, a day after attending the G7 summit.

At the summit, G7 leaders failed to secure a pledge from US President Donald Trump to keep America in a key climate change accord, the Paris Agreement. The chancellor described the talks on the issue as "very difficult, not to say very unsatisfactory" afterwards.

In her Sunday speech, Merkel said: "We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in...