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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, July 14, 2021.
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FILE - in this file photo dated Thursday, April 22, 2021, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, front right, attends a virtual international climate summit with US President Joe Biden, seen on screen left, in Berlin, Germany. Merkel on Wednesday July 14, 2021, is bound for America, for meetings on Thursday with US President Biden on what is likely to be her last official visit.
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Activists wearing masks depicting Chancellor Merkel and U.S. President Biden stand in front of a symbolic patent wall that they are smashing with hammers in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, July 14, 20221. The wall reads Covid 19 Peoples Vaccine. Avaaz activists are calling for the temporary suspension of patent protection for Covid vaccines.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a news conference with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) July 15, 2021 - 6:17 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) â Welcoming Angela Merkel to the White House for a final time, President Joe Biden renewed his concerns to the German chancellor Thursday about a major, nearly complete Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline but said they agreed Russia must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon.
The two discussed â though made no apparent headway â on differences over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline during a largely friendly farewell visit for Merkel as she nears the end of a political career that has spanned four American presidencies.
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Washington farewells Angela Merkel
Germany’s long-serving chancellor is proud of protecting democracy and worried about the future as she bids farewell to her fourth and final American president.
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Don’t call it a farewell tour. But also don’t ask any hard questions about Russia or China.
Angela Merkel came to Washington this week with a pit stop in Baltimore to pick up an honorary doctorate from Johns Hopkins University as the undisputed political queen of Europe, and to firm up what she called the “framework conditions” for democracy.
Merkel stuck to her comfort zone of stabilizing, general talk. “Democratic institutions have to be nurtured,” she said accepting her Doctor of Humane Letters. “If these institutions are under permanent attack and put into question, democracy will not work.”
Biden bids Merkel farewell: Friends - with disagreements
AAMER MADHANI, ALEXANDRA JAFFE and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press
July 15, 2021
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1of14President Joe Biden meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Washington.Evan Vucci/APShow MoreShow Less
2of14President Joe Biden listens as German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021.Susan Walsh/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of14German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a news conference with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021.Susan Walsh/APShow MoreShow Less