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May 7, 2012

Pragmatic Merkel Will Work with Hollande

Philip Oltermann, The Guardian

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Angela Merkel isn't due to meet François Hollande for the first time until next week, but she must think she already knows him fairly well. Otherwise her senior diplomats wouldn't have confidently announced that the German and French head of state will find a "pragmatic solution" over the new fiscal pact, as they told Süddeutsche Zeitung last week. But then she would say that: pragmatism is what Merkel is all about.

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TAGGED: France, Germany, Angela Merkel, Eurozone, Francois Hollande, austerity

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