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Cooperation with US based on shared values, says Merkel
By EUOBSERVER
German chancellor Angela Merkel has offered US president-elect Donald Trump "close cooperation" on the basis of common transatlantic values. Merkel told reporters in Berlin: "Germany and America are connected by values: democracy, freedom, respect for the law and for the dignity of human beings, independently of origin, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political views."