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Germany keeps focus on exports
Germany has no intention of dropping its focus on exports to help boost the economies of its European Union partners, it said yesterday, despite adopting a conciliatory tone towards France on EU economic management. Ahead of this week’s European Union summit, chancellor Angela Merkel met France’s Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday and agreed that Europe needed more “economic government”. But top German officials yesterday made clear that this had to happen on German terms.