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Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will in the coming period travel to the United States and Albania and host German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Belgrade.

Speaking on Thursday, Vucic said that he finds the tasks to be carried out in Serbia to be "more important."

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will be meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, in Riga, Latvia, during the Summit.

Merkel and Hollande stated that negotiations with Greece must be sped up, during a meeting in Berlin on Tuesday, while the French President underlined that Greece’s place is in the Euro.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has sung with Turkish children at a school in Berlin. "Who is this?" she asked a student who held a cell phone, pointing to photo of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on its cover.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in, convincingly in fact, on Tuesday against stereotypes in Europe, speaking at a high school in Berlin where many of the students are from an immigrant background, particularly Turks.
“Namely, one suddenly saying ‘Oh, the Bulgarians, the Greeks, we know what they’re like’,” she said, adding: “We can’t ever say that.”

Angela Merkel spoke in Bremen on Friday, and clearly stated that aid cannot be given, either on immigration issues or financial problems, if terms are not met.

The veteran leader of Montenegro is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel during his official visit to Berlin on Wednesday, mainly to discuss the country's prospects of joining  NATO and the EU.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel left open a “window” of possibility over talks for war reparations to Greece, simply noting that “we’re carefully dealing with all that we (Germans) caused during the period of National-socialism (Nazism)”.
Her high-profile statement comes after comments by the German president, who said the sensitive issue must be re-examined.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel touched upon on a subject that is taboo for the German people during her message for the 70-year anniversary since the end of World War 2 on May 8. Speaking about the dark pages of German history and the Nazi atrocities during WWII, Merkel underlined that nobody should draw a segregational line with Germany’s past.

"Sanctions depend on upholding Minsk obligations"

WARSAW -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday sanctions imposed on Russia should depend on upholding obligations from the peace agreements reached in Minsk.

A German government spokesman confirmed on Monday that Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a telephone conversation on Sunday but declined to comment on the contents of their conversation.

"I can confirm the conversation took place,» a spokesman said.