United States presidential candidate Barak Obama is due to arrive soon in Berlin for the first stop of his European tour.
He is to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier to discuss issues such as trade, climate change and troop commitments to Afghanistan. Later on Thursday, Obama is expected to hold his only public speech of his week-long foreign tour in Berlin's central Tiergarten Park. Plans to hold the speech on transatlantic relations at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate were changed after controversy in Germany over the symbolism of the site. The Democratic candidate for president is very popular in Germany and Obama calls for poltical solution for Iraq ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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