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Referring to government sources, national broadcaster ARD said, Merkel in a pre-recorded statement wanted to inform the Germans where the country was and remind them what they could do to help slow the spread of the disease, Reuters said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said negotiations on Britain's future relations with the EU will not be easy and have vowed to help the EU succeed after Brexit, the Associated Press reported.

Britain's exit from the European Union tonight is "a difficult parting for all of us, the 27 EU Member States and Germany," Merkel said in a video message issued by her cabinet.

From the start of the crisis, meetings between successive Greek prime ministers and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have acquired particular importance. It was clear that Germany, as Europe's greatest power and Greece's largest creditor, played the leading role in the Union's course and, to a great extent, determined developments in Greece.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Aug. 29 said that the EU would continue engaging Turkey on the issue of assistance it may need to address the refugee problem.       

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday discussed the prospects for investments in Greece and Europe's migration problem in their first meeting since the latter was elected, reportedly seeing eye-to-eye on both issues.

Whether one agrees with its policies or not, Germany is the European Union's economic engine. France also plays an important role, but no one disputes Berlin's primacy. Chancellor Angela Merkel is the oldest-serving and most stable leader of the western world.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis will discuss bilateral relations, and issues relating to economic and European during their official meeting in Berlin next Thursday (August 29), a government spokesman said Friday.

German Chancellor attends the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain.

,,Europe will only be truly united when the Western Balkan countries become part of the European Union (EU).'' This is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, cited by BGNES.

It is being referred to in public as a diplomatic scandal, at least, as the most clumsily worded political stance, Radio Free Europe reports.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Greece a glimmer of hope on Friday for a possible review of the terms agreed by Athens and its creditors on state debt, including a high primary surplus target.