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>>We have some issues we need to work out but we respect the ultra-important role that Germany played in the European Union...<<
Senator Bob Corker, Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee, after his meeting with Sigmar Gabriel yesterday.
Played, wohlgemerkt.
Mr. Corker hält eine deutsche Vorreiterrolle in der EU also offensichtlich für überholte Vergangenheit.....
........... http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa...-idUKKBN15H23G .... 
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