The Latest: Obama on the European Union
ATHENS, Greece — The Latest on President Barack Obama’s final foreign tour as president (all times local):
5:15 p.m.
President Barack Obama is likening the difficulty in resolving problems in the European Union to the challenges of dealing with Congress.
Obama is holding a joint news conference in Athens with Greece’s prime minister. He says Congress is hard to deal with, but dealing with multiple parliaments and commissions and other entities is “very complicated.”
He says many European leaders have inherited problems and are trying to identify how to resolve them.