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Germany’s parliament paid tribute on Monday to Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former finance minister and the country’s longest-serving lawmaker who helped negotiate German reunification. Schaeuble died in December at age 81. French President Emmanuel Macron, Bundestag president Baerbel Bas and Christian Democrats leader Friedrich Merz praised Schaeuble’s long years of service in the German government and his commitment to a unified Germany and to the European project.
Dignitaries and politicians bid farewell to the late German lawmaker Wolfgang Schäuble in a state ceremony in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, on Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Schäuble in a eulogy, saying that "Germany has lost a statesman, Europe has lost a pillar, France has lost a friend." Macron also evoked the recent death of Jacques Delors, a former president of the European Commission who died a day after Schäuble. "One after the other, Europe has lost two of its gre