A spokesman for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation on Friday confirmed that Merkel had made clear last week at a meeting that she would no longer be available for the influential 55-person oversight board or for future members' meetings.
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is a think tank that's directly tied to the Christian Democrats but is also nominally independent from the party for legal reasons.
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