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Merkel concerned over constant tension around Kosovo, BiH, Croatia
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Tuesday Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Vucic told Serbia's state broadcaster RTS after the meeting that Merkel was "very concerned with the events in the region of the Western Balkans," Beta reported.
Merkel looks forward to detailed talks with Trump: Gov't spokesman
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking forward to an elaborate exchange of views on a variety of issues with U.S. President Donald Trump when they meet in Washington on March 14, Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on March 13.
Seibert said that the two leaders will meet for more than 2-1/2 hours and will then continue their deliberations at a working lunch after that.
Merkel: The DM would have a different value than the Euro
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a peculiar statement during the Munich Security Meeting. She said that the ECB’s monetary policy regarding the Euro is not based on Germany but rather it is adjusted on countries like Portugal, Slovenia or Slovakia, arguing that if the DM was still in circulation it would have a different value that what the Euro has now.
Bulgaria's President Radev Meets Merkel
President Rumen Radev participated on Friday in an informal meeting of the European Council held in Malta.
The heads of state and government leaders of EU member-states discussed in Valletta the issues related to the migrant influx in Europe, as well as Brexit, reported the government's press service.
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German chancellor to hold phone call with Greek PM
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday requested a telephone call with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ahead of her scheduled visit to Turkey on Thursday, February 2, ANA-MPA reported.
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Angela Merkel reading Playboy to better understand Donald Trump (video)
According to a Bloomberg piece, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is poring over archives of videos with interviews of Donald Trump, including Playboy magazines, desperately seeking ways to better understand and possibly influence the newly elected US President before the two meet. The atricle cites two sources familiar with her preparations. From the Bloomberg:
Merkel vows to toughen anti-terrorist laws
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government would toughen its anti-terrorist law in the wake of the recent attack in a Berlin Christmas market by Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri that resulted in 12 deaths and 49 injured civilians. Speaking only a few hours after the Italian police killed the 24-year-old terrorist in Italy, Ms.
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Merkel visits Monday’s attack site
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Foreign Affairs minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Minister of Interior Thomas de Maiziere visited Monday’s attack site at noon today and left one white flower in memory of the victims. The German Chancellor was dressed in black and couldn’t hide her sorrow.
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Merkel on Berlin terror attack: We will punish the culprit harshly
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to punish the perpetrators of the terrorist truck attack in Berlin, which led to the death of 12 civilians and the injury of 48 other, during a televised address to the German public, Tuesday. “Millions of people wonder how we can live with what happened in the Christmas market? A murderer killed so many people in such a happy place?
Merkel: No change in refugee policy in wake of attack
Although "there is much still not known with sufficient certainty," Monday's attack in Berlin "must be assumed to have been a terrorist attack."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this on Tuesday in her first public address since a driver - reportedly a Pakistani refugee - deliberately drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.