On
a day of odd political coincidences, Merkel will sit down with one
President she calls a friend and with whom she shares a political
wavelength -- Barack Obama, and another, with whom she has had a frosty
start -- Donald Trump.
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Merkel, the most powerful leader in Europe, first met Obama in Berlin discussing democracy and faith at the Brandenburg Gate, meters away from the path of the Cold War wall which once split the city, at an event hosted by the German protestant church.
Then
she will fly to Brussels to take part in a photo op at the NATO summit
where she is due to see Trump, who didn't even shake her hand in her
Oval Office visit. It's a chance for a do-over after their odd couple
optics during her visit to Washington in March.
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