REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkeGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has hit back at President-elect Donald Trump's recent criticism of her refugee policy and description of NATO as "obsolete," saying in a statement on Monday that Europe's destiny was "in our own hands." "We Europeans have our destiny in our own hands," Merkel told reporters in Berlin. "I will continue to work to ensure that the 27 member states work together effectively and, above all, in a forward-looking way," she said, adding that Trump's positions had "been known for a while." "My positions are also known," she said. In an interview published Sunday with the Times of London and Bild newspapers, Trump slammed what he described as Merkel's "utterly catastrophic mistake" to allow "all these illegals into the country" and suggested that he trusted Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin equally. "I start off trusting both (Putin and Merkel) — but let's see how long that lasts," Trump said.
Merkel Hits Back At Trump: Europe's Fate Is 'in Our Own Hands'
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Mon, 01/16/2017 - 7:06am
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