Why is German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington today?
A1: At the invitation of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, newly reelected Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed a joint session of Congress in honor of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The last time a German leader addressed Congress was in 1957. In addition to her congressional address, Chancellor Merkel also met with President Obama. If you keep count of such things, Merkel and Obama have met bilaterally on four occasions since Obama took office: an April meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, on the margins of the NATO Summit, two June meetings (one in Dresden, Germany, and another two weeks later at the White House), and today’s meeting. The two leaders have certainly spent a significant amount of quality bilateral time together. Fresh from her September 27 center-right coalition victory (as predicted by President Obama in June) and as a product of German reunification herself, Chancellor Merkel holds the international spotlight for the next week as the world acknowledges the
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