Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/31/16

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff is insisting that Berlin wants to press ahead with concluding a sweeping European Union-U.S. trade deal, underscoring divisions in the country's governing coalition.Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who's also vice chancellor and leads the center-left junior party in Merkel's coalition, has said that trade negotiations...

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