Last week, President Obama attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the French-German border.

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During the week German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have phoned the Italian president to explore the possibility of a change of government.

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It was so intent on stopping its sale to Europe that in the same week the tablet became available in the U.K., Apple filed a 44-page complaint to a German court last week.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who has been meeting with his French and German counterparts this week, said he is confident the efforts to forge a tighter fiscal union and stronger spending discipline in countries like Italy and Greece will ultimately succeed.

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