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Angela Merkel

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

Strength

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Angela Merkel is saying that Europe must improve its economic performance to keep being a valuable trade partner for the United States. She emphasizes that this improvement should come from building real economic power and efficiency, not from weakness or dependency.

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