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Merkel gets standing ovation in final EU summit

After 16 years as the bloc's most influential leader.

22 October, 14:32
(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, OCT 22 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday received a standing ovation from EU counterparts at her final European summit after 16 years as the bloc's most influential leader. "You are a monument," the convener of the summits, European Council chief Charles Michel, said in the closed-door homage to her, according to an official in the room. An EU summit "without Angela is like Rome without the Vatican or Paris without the Eiffel tower," Michel said.

(ANSA-AFP).

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