Washington, UNITED STATES
Chancellor of Germany Merkel is applauded by Enders, Hagel, Kiep and Lindemann after receiving award...
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (R) is applauded by Airbus CEO Thomas Enders (from L-2nd R), former US Senator Chuck Hagel, Walther Leisler Kiep and Beate Lindemann as she receives the Eric M. Warburg Award from the Atlantik-Brucke Group during a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, June 25, 2009. The Warburg Award, given by the the Atlantik-Brucke Group to honor transatlantic understanding and cooperation, is named for a member of a prominent German-Jewish banking family who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and found refuge in the US. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES POLITICS)