The new German chancellor Angela Merkel has said during her first foreign trip to Paris and Brussels that she "stands by the EU constitution," vowing to revive the shelved charter when Germany takes over the EU presidency in 2007.
Berlin's new leader dined with European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels on Wednesday evening (23 November), after a long day of meetings that started with a kiss on the hand by French president Jacques Chirac in Paris in the morning.
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