“They are also European demands and many of them are justified and necessary”.
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Washington has long rejected the idea, fearing it could draw USA forces into Syria’s civil war. Her refugee policy, and mine, will win the day.
They said Merkel told a meeting of the Christian Democratic parliamentary group on Tuesday that she would “rather today than tomorrow lift” the sanctions imposed on Russian Federation over its role in the Ukraine crisis and its annexation of the Crimea peninsula.
On the eve of an EU summit, Merkel said “the main thing now is to have a common stance on how to secure the external borders, and here the EU-Turkey plan offers a good solution”.
“The European migration policies she and I are pursuing will prevail”.
The alternative would be to “abandon [this path] and close the Greek-Macedonian-Bulgarian border instead – with all the consequences that would entail for Greece and the European Union as a whole”.
“Whoever seriously thought that Europe could be governed from Berlin should not be surprised when the wind now blows in his face”, Wagenknecht said.
Both German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier have visited the nation.
Durable diplomacy was needed, despite setbacks, she said.
Asked which of Cameron’s demands was most contentious, the source said: “It is too hard to say which one is the most hard!”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will press other European Union leaders at a summit this week to work with Turkey to curb the flow of migrants.
Just before a full summit of 28 European leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Werner Faymann will host talks on Thursday with nine EU leaders and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the Austrian mission in Brussels.
She said that this had been made clear to Iran at every relevant opportunity: “In all conversations [with Iranian counterparts], my ministers, and I myself if applicable, have made this clear”. “It is strong leadership to say “wir schaffen das” – anything else would have been a capitulation to the populists”.
Ms Merkel also said it was in Germany’s “national interest” for Britain to remain an “active member” of the EU.
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“These principles are not up for disposal”, Merkel said, adding any change to European Union treaties would not be immediate.
