In the run up to the G8 summit in June, Berlin and Brussels have teamed up to press the world's richest countries to deliver on aid promises and climate change, but German chancellor Angela Merkel is playing down hopes for a major breakthrough in the fight against global warming.
"I can say quite openly that today I don't know if we will succeed in that at [G8 summit venue] Heiligendamm," Angela Merkel said in a speech to German lawmakers on Thursday (24 May), adding "for me it is cle...
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