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By Arne Delfs, Rainer Buergin, and Birgit Jennen

November 15, 2017 at 9:23 PM UTC

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November 16, 2017 at 8:18 AM UTC

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Germany’s Angela Merkel is wary that pushing U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May too hard in Brexit talks could backfire, according to a person familiar with the chancellor’s thinking.