Obama and Merkel call for continued transatlantic cooperation

US president and German chancellor write joint article stressing importance of partnership on issues such as climate change and terrorism

Outgoing US president, Barack Obama, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, have made an appeal for continued cooperation between the US and the European Union on climate change, anti-terror measures as well as a transatlantic trade deal during Donald Trump's presidency.

In a joint op-ed published in German weekly Wirtschaftswoche on the eve of the president's last European visit in office, the two leaders argue that while the world is at a crossroads, "the future is already happening and there will not be a return to a world before globalisation".

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