#DailyChart: On February 9th Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, will meet Barack Obama in the White House. They will discuss the war in Ukraine, transatlantic trade, the wobbling euro zone and the upcoming G7 summit in Bavaria. German-Americans will barely notice, few of them emphasise their links with the Fatherland. In the United States, German-Americans constitute the largest single ethnic group, yet despite 46m Americans claiming German ancestry, they are barely visible http://econ.st/1FfQHiM