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		</div><p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the visiting Danish prime minister sat through their countries’ national anthems at a ceremony in Berlin on Thursday.</p>
<p>The event came a day after Mrs Merkel shook as she stood at a similar ceremony in the latest of three incidents that have raised concern about her health.</p>
<p>She showed no signs of unsteadiness or other ill-health as she sat alongside new Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen outside the chancellery in Berlin, an unusual arrangement at a military honours ceremony that appeared aimed at forestalling the possibility of another high-profile episode.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Mrs Merkel shook as she stood alongside Finland’s prime minister at the same spot.</p>
<p>She later suggested that the psychological impact of the first shaking episode in mid-June was responsible for the subsequent incidents, saying that she “will have to live with it for a while” but there is nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel indicated at the time that the first incident on June 18 may have been caused by dehydration on a hot day.</p>
<p>Public figures’ health is generally regarded as a private matter in Germany and there has been little reason until recent weeks for questions about the health of a leader who has a long-standing reputation for stamina. The country’s privacy laws are very strict on such personal information.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel, who turns 65 next week, also has kept up a full schedule lately, attending a Group of 20 summit in Japan and a marathon European Union summit. On Sunday, she is due to attend France’s annual national day military parade.</p>
<p>At a news conference after Thursday’s meeting with Ms Frederiksen, Mrs Merkel sidestepped a German reporter’s question as to whether she has consulted her doctors and, if so, what the results were.</p>
<p><em>“You can assume that, firstly, I am aware of the responsibility of my office and act accordingly, also as far as my health is concerned,”</em> she replied.<em> “And secondly, you can assume that I also have a great personal interest in being healthy and taking care of my health.”</em></p>
<p>Asked what her upcoming 65th birthday means to her, a smiling Mrs Merkel said that “it means you’re not getting younger, but perhaps more experienced. Everything has its good side”.</p>
<p>All three incidents in which Mrs Merkel’s whole body shook in public took place as she stood still without talking, and ended immediately once she started walking.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel also has shown no signs of shaking or unsteadiness while standing and talking in parliament or, as at Thursday’s news conference, behind a lectern.</p>
<p>The recent string of incidents has prompted some concern in German media — relatively mild by many other countries’ standards, but somewhat unusual for Germany — about Mrs Merkel’s health but is not dominating news coverage in the country.</p>
<p>Fellow politicians of all stripes have largely steered clear of the matter or, if they have addressed it at all, expressed support for Mrs Merkel’s handling of it.</p>
<p>Simone Peter, a former leader of the opposition Greens, tweeted on Thursday of Mrs Merkel listening to the anthems in a chair: <em>“That’s completely OK, and the Danish prime minister has the empathy and courtesy to show solidarity.”</em></p>
<p><em>“Everyone should do that and recognise that a mega-stressful job can also leave its mark,”</em> she added.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel, who has led Germany since November 2005, said last year that she will not seek a fifth term as chancellor and will not seek any other political job after her current term ends in 2021.</p>
<p>She gave up the leadership of her centre-right party after a pair of poor state election performances that followed a rocky start to her fourth-term government.</p>
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