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Germany takes over EU Presidency at challenging time
“Now, I think, there’s a realization that she wants to have been a chancellor that has made Europe stronger, and so they’re kind of a happy marriage of interests going on between her and Macron,” said John Springford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform research institute in London.