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Cameron seeks to court Merkel in bid to reshape Britain's EU ties
Prime Minister David Cameron meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday in an attempt to gauge how far Berlin will go to keep the world's fifth-largest economy inside the European Union ahead of a referendum on membership. Cameron's post-election tour of European capitals ends with a lunch at which he is likely to ask Merkel's help in securing a deal of concessions that he could sell to a divided British public before the referendum by the end of 2017. French President Francois Hollande told Cameron on Thursday he wanted Britain to stay in the world's biggest trading bloc while Cameron said the status quo in ... (full story)