Merkel warns against 'simple answers' after Trump meetings

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned Monday against seeking "simple answers" to complex global issues, a day after suggesting that Europe's relationship with the U.S. had shifted significantly following NATO and G-7 meetings with President Donald Trump that produced disappointing results.

The comments at an election rally Sunday in Bavaria, where Merkel stressed that "we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands," were widely seen as acknowledgement from Europe's most powerful leader of the changing dynamic of trans-Atlantic ties.

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