During the meeting, with 50 members of National Assembly (French lower chamber) and the same number of members of the Bundestag (parliament), Merkel stated that in a future EU-Russia summit all problems must be dealt with.
It must include matters that worry us and those where we want to develop cooperation, Merkel commented when asked by the local reporters.
In a recent summit in Brussels, the community bloc lacked consensus to pass a French-German proposal to hold a summit between the 27 countries of the group and Russia.
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