Chancellor’s last EU summit: “Merkel was a compromise machine” (video)

Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister Luxembourg: “I have to tell you, most people don’t know, but Ms. Merkel was such a compromise machine, which means very often, if things just couldn’t go on, then Angela ‘tüktüktüktüktük’ and then she came, said “okay, i propose, taktaktaktaktak”. And then we managed to still have ambitions. Because most of the time, if we don’t agree at all, nothing comes out at all and then we do prose. And Frau Merkel has Most of the time we still found something that unites us together in order to continue it. So I will miss you, Europe will miss you and we as Luxembourgers, as neighbors too. But it is a great person who will leave us. I am happy looking to work with the new government, but I have to tell you that my personal relationship with Ms. Merkel is a person I value very, very much. And I will miss you very much personally. “