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Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne, right, stands outside the Chancellery in Berlin, Thursday morning, May 28, 2009. Chancellor Angela Merkel and several ministers gathered for talks at Merkel's Berlin office with representatives of GM, the U.S. government and Opel's suitors, as well as governors of German states that have Opel plants, aimed at putting Opel on the road to safety. Germany pressed for an independent future for General Motors Corp.'s Europe-based Opel unit on Wednesday, with the country's foreign minister saying "the lights must not go out'' as its U.S. parent headed for a likely bankruptcy filing. (KEYSTONE/AP/Franka Bruns)