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Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, of Germany talks to a fellow delegate at the summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, left, is congratulated on his prize by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the former head of the state-funded body which manages the archives of the former East German secret police Stasi Joachim Gauck, center, after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, second left, is congratulated on his prize by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the former head of the state-funded body which manages the archives of the former East German secret police Stasi Joachim Gauck, second right, as Potsdam's mayor Jann Jakobs looks on after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer, right, arrive at the opening of the Wagner Opera Festival in front of the Festspielhaus theatre in Bayreuth, Germany,Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/dapd/Eckehard Schulz)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts at the beginning of a special budget meeting of the cabinet at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, June 6, 2010. Chancellor Angela Merkel met with her ministers to hammer out a savings plan for the nation's budget that could include cuts to federal staff, social welfare benefits or tax hikes. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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TEUTONIC TIP: German Chancellor Angela Merkel discusses global finance after a meeting with advisers at the Chancellery in Berlin on Monday ahead of the Group of 20 summit. (Associated Press)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrive Monday at a news conference during a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin to prepare for a European Union summit later this week, amid speculation of a rift in German-French views on economic policy. Merkel welcomed Sarkozy to discuss a joint strategy on how to curb the debt crisis that has dragged down the common European currency and rattled economies across the continent. (Associated Press)