"He's pragmatic, prepared to compromise, accepts budget discipline and he'll be under enormous pressure from the markets, " says Claire Demesmay, French expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations.

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John Hulsman, an American analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations, predicts trouble over Iran at a first meeting between the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the next American president.

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