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"Europe is in one of its toughest, perhaps the toughest hour since World War Two"
- Angela Merkel, German Chancellor
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that European Union possibly faces its worst crisis since World War Two and hinted that Europe must move step-by-step towards political union, offering no new ideas on how to resolve the crisis.
"The challenge of our generation is to finish what we started in Europe, and that is to bring about, step by step, a political union," Merkel told to the party congress in Leipzig. "Europe is in one of its toughest, perhaps the toughest hour since World War Two."
"The hard part is that this crisis was not created overnight, it is the result of decades of mistakes, and we can't solve it in one fell swoop. We have a long, tough road ahead of us," added Merkel.