President Obama hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel at State Dinner in Washington

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google Inc., attends the State Dinner for Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2011. Obama said he and Merkel agreed that the debt crisis in Europe "cannot be allowed to put the global economic recovery at risk." UPI/Andrew Harrer/POOL