“Danke schön!” EU leaders, Obama give Merkel big sendoff
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“Danke schön!” EU leaders, Obama give Merkel big sendoff

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Angela Merkel is still Germany’s Chancellor, and might be still when European Union leaders meet again, yet they gave her a big farewell party at Friday’s EU summit. Attending her 107th summit, Merkel was feted by friend and foe alike in an informal ceremony behind closed doors early Friday, where they called her anything from a “compromise machine” to the EU’s Eiffel Tower. “You are a monument,” said EU Council President Charles Michel, adding that a summit meeting without her will be like “Rome without the Vatican or Paris without the Eiffel Tower.” Former U.S. president Obama was equally gushing. “Frau Merkel was a compromise machine,” said Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.

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