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7/9/07

Merkel: Europeans must defend core values of freedom, democracy against Islamic terrorists - International Herald Tribune

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Merkel: Europeans must defend core values of freedom, democracy against Islamic terrorists

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Europeans to take a joint stand against Islamic terrorists and defend what she called the European Union's core values of democracy and tolerance. Merkel, whose nation held the rotating EU presidency from January to June of this year, urged EU citizens to view the union not only as an economic bloc, but one of common values.

"We need the European Union as a community of shared values," Merkel said Sunday in an address at the Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

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