Given the strains of domestic politics and the poor empathy between president and chancellor, there will be plenty of sceptics to agree with Mr Schmidt.
And tonight is special because the President and I, in addition to hosting the Chancellor and her husband -- the President is going to give the Chancellor the Medal of Freedom, which is the higher honor that any civilian can receive from the President of the United States.
He has been in touch, as Ben said, with President Napolitano, also with Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy late last week, on developments in Europe.
The president said he told Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Scheussel and President Jose Manuel Barroso of the European Commission that the United States would like to send the detainees home.
Preaching to an audience that included U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner among other world leaders, the pope called for a defense of the needy and the environment.
I've expressed those concerns repeatedly to President Sarkozy, Chancellor Merkel, all the key leaders involved.
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President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel, despite many arguments, became allies and friends during the fight to save the euro.
President Chirac and Chancellor Schroeder detested each other before learning to work together.
President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel said institutions that did not comply with new any rules agreed by the summit should be identified.
Along the way he amassed substantial power with SUNY where he technically reports to the University at Albany president and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher.
And my second question is, forward looking to tomorrow, can you give us a flavor as to what President Obama and Chancellor Merkel will be discussing?
You never know, if President Hollande and Chancellor Merkel are committed to making it work, the Franco-German relationship might actually do better with a less theatrical character running France.
And based on my conversations with President Sarkozy, Chancellor Merkel, and all the other European leaders, I believe they have that strong commitment to the euro and the European project.
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Days earlier in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French president and German chancellor, had all but given Britain an ultimatum: accept their plan to rewrite the laws of the EU, or prompt the 17 members of the euro zone to seek a separate deal and risk British isolation.
That's why, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel in May, the European leaders should practice some nuanced diplomacy: They should not shut the door to Turkey's becoming part of the EU but simply say that the negotiation process should continue and that they will see where things stand in a decade or so.
President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel had smirked at the mere mention of his name.
It always takes a French president and a German chancellor a couple of years to get along well.
Yesterday, the French president and the German chancellor were noticeably cool.
Mr. President, you called Chancellor Merkel one of your closest global allies, but you have differed in approach on a couple of key issues -- Libya and the global economic recovery over the years.
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All of which just adds to the burden of responsibility on the French president and the German chancellor as they meet today, to at least avoid saying anything in public that exacerbates the fears that the eurozone remains a whole philosophy way from having an answer to its debt-induced woes ( see my post of yesterday for more on this).
We worked very closely with Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy and others in Europe on this.
And next Friday the President will meet with German Chancellor Merkel here at the White House.
Obama thanked French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for hosting the conference.
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Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande will speak confidently about not only the Franco-German relationship but the future of Europe.
It was a focus of the meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel last Monday.
There are parallels with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and prospects of an uneasy coalition.
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At the end of last year, Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy said emphatically that they would hold it together.
It follows a telephone call between Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron issued a similar joint statement today.
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