Brussels, 05/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Washington on Thursday evening, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her host, US President George W. Bush, tackled, in addition to international issues, the question of economic cooperation between the Union and the United States. The president of the European Council was in the American capital to act as ambassador for the EU27 and to promote support for a new transatlantic partnership, a theme she says will be a priority of her EU...