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Merkel speaks out about infamous meeting with Putin in new memoir
In her new memoir, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel questions if Russian President Vladimir Putin was playing power games during a 2007 meeting in Sochi, Russia, and recalls seeking advice from Pope Francis about how to deal with then-President Donald Trump.
Germany’s Merkel recalls Putin’s ‘power games’ and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs
BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin’s “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit, in her memoirs published Tuesday.
Merkel’s memoir reveals her blind spots on Russia
Merkel’s fascinating account of the battle at the Nato summit in Bucharest in 2008 — where, with French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s help, she defeated George W Bush’s attempt to get Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance — carefully avoids establishing a link between this pivotal moment and the invasion of Georgia by Russian forces four months later.
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