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FILE - In this April 10, 2018 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, right, look at their watches after they and other members of the government posed for a group photo during two-day retreat at the government guest house Meseberg castle in Gransee north of Berlin, Germany. In the center is German Justice Minister Katarina Barley. Germany's top security official, who has frequently criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy, is reportedly planning to quit his post in government.German news agency dpa quoted multiple unnamed party officials as saying Horst Seehofer told a meeting of the Christian Social Union on Sunday that he plans to relinquish its leadership and his role as interior minister in Merkel's government. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

The Latest: Germany’s Seehofer to remain interior minister

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French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron arrive at the official dinner on the eve of the international ceremony for the Centenary of the WWI Armistice of 11 November 1918 at the Orsay Museum, in Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. (Ian Langsdon/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Leaders discuss Ukraine elections at Paris meet

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers a speech during an hour of commemoration in the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. Bundestag members are commemorating the Night of Broken Glass pogroms of 1938, in which Nazi supporters burned and vandalized synagogues and Jewish businesses across the country, killing over 400 people, but also the creation of the first German republic in 1918 as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. All three events occurred on November 9. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany: Merkel warns of modern racism on Kristallnacht 80th

By GEIR MOULSON and RANDY HERSCHAFT - Associated Press

In this Oct. 19, 2018 photo, a visitor stands by the train carriage in which the armistice of the Nov. 11, 1918 was signed, in the forest of Compiegne, north of Paris. The French and German leaders this weekend will jointly visit the remains of the train carriage where the armistice ending World War I was signed on Nov. 11, 1918. For the French, the dining car became a shrine to peace. For Adolf Hitler, it was a symbol of the humiliation of surrender. The Nazi leader had it dragged to Germany after conquering France in World War II. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Hitler in war, Merkel in peace: A train car for history

By THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

Merkel ally pitches to take over German center-right party

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2017 file photo Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, arrives for a public hearing at the parliamentary control committee of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin. A saga over Germany’s outgoing domestic intelligence chief that hurt the country’s government has taken a new twist, with his move to another job apparently in danger. German news agency dpa reported that Maassen assailed in a farewell speech what he described as radical left-wing forces in the Social Democrats, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is now considering whether to dismiss him or send him into retirement. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

German domestic spy chief won’t get new government job

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German Chancellor and chairwoman of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Angela Merkel, arrives for a closed-door meeting in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany’s Merkel: I can work well with any party successor

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference after talks between the governments of Poland and Germany in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Merkel’s ally forms coalition to govern in Bavaria

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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, left, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, ahead of intergovernmental consultations in Warsaw, Poland, Friday Nov. 2, 2018. Merkel is visiting Warsaw amid calls by Polish officials that Germany pay Poland billions of dollars for damage inflicted by the Nazis during World War II. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland likely to stay out of global migration pact, PM says

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

German Health Minister Jens Spahn laughs prior to the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

German health minister sets out pitch for Merkel succession

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FILE -- in this Tuesday, June 12, 2018 photo Friedrich Merz attends a meeting of the economic council of the Chistian Democratic Party in Berlin, Germany. Merz lost his post as the party's parliamentary leader to Merkel in 2002 and has been absent from front-line politics in recent years. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP)

Party job contender downplays tension with Germany’s Merkel

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German Christian Democratic Party, CDU, chairwoman and Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves leave after a news conference after a party's leaders meeting at the headquarters the in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Merkel won’t seek a 5th term as German chancellor

By GEIR MOULSON and DAVID RISING - Associated Press

German Christian Democratic Party, CDU, chairwoman and Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media during a news conference after a party's leaders meeting at the headquarters the in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The Latest: Macron praises Merkel’s ‘respectable’ decision

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens to a question during a press conference after talks with Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis in Prague, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Germany’s Angela Merkel prepares to give up party job: Reports

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German Christian Democratic Party, CDU, chairwoman and Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media during a news conference after a party's leaders meeting at the headquarters the in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Alternative for Germany emboldened by Angela Merkel exit

By Austin Davis and Eros Banaj — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2018 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin. The stakes are unusually high for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as the central region of Hesse votes in a state election this weekend. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

The Latest: German govt parties lose ground in state vote

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FILE - In this June 18, 2018 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks with the Prime Minister of the Hesse state Volker Bouffier, right, prior to leaders meetings of her Christion Democratic Union party at the party's headquarters in Berlin. The stakes are unusually high for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as the central region of Hesse votes in a state election this weekend. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Germany’s governing parties punished in state election

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 photo, from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Horst Seehofer, Chairman of the German Christian Social Union, and Andrea Nahles, Chairwomen of the German Social Democrats, address the media during a press conference in Berlin. The stakes are unusually high for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as the central region of Hesse votes in a state election this weekend. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

German state vote in Hesse tests Merkel’s unhappy coalition

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to the press after talks with Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis in Prague, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Angela Merkel: Arms sales to Saudis are on hold

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel sits between Vice-chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, left, Head of Chancellery and Minister for Special Tasks Helge Braun, right, as she leads the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany wants automakers to pay up as more diesel bans loom

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press