After the U.K. voted to leave the EU, several European politicians, including French President François Hollande, and the heads of the main EU institutions called for swift retribution in the shape... BERLIN—As negotiations over Britain’s exit from the European Union creak into motion, the bloc’s most powerful politician is being thrown into a familiar role: trying to bridge divergent interests in her country and across the continent.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 25, 2016 07:47 UTC