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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • “We Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands.” That was Angela Merkel’s much debated conclusion from her meetings with President Trump last week, indicating a potentially seismic shift in Germany’s relations with the United States. Even Martin Schulz, Ms. Merkel’s Social Democratic challenger in elections in the fall, rallied behind her. Ms. Merkel hosts the prime minister of India and the premier of China this week. _____ • President Trump called his trip to Europe a “great success for America.” Separately, he paid tribute to fallen American troops on Memorial Day on Monday, saying they “died in war so we could live in peace.” Mr. Trump is trying to contain the fallout from reports that Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and adviser, spoke with the Russian ambassador in December about establishing a secret communications channel to the Kremlin. Our reporters discovered that U.S. investigators are scrutinizing a meeting Mr. Kushner had later that month with a Russian financier whose bank is entwined with Russian intelligence. _____ • Emmanuel Macron, the new French president, promised military reprisals for any use of chemical weapons by Russia’s allies in Syria. He spoke next to Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, at a news conference in Versailles. Mr. Putin, Mr. Macron’s first international guest, pushed for the lifting of European sanctions. M... Link to the full article to read more