"I think she had also had a difficulty in her marriage and they appear to have got closer to each other, " he said.

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She also said, I think obviously very accurately, that the long-term solution to this is the drilling of relief wells, right?

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"I still think that pushing a child too much could also could be quite cruel and unfair, " she says.

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"I think it is also good for the UK to be in Europe, " the German chancellor said, adding she would do "everything" to keep the UK in the EU "as a good partner".

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