Charles Michel to Angela Merkel: Without you will be like “Rome without the Vatican or Paris without the Eiffel Tower.

European Union leaders gave Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel a big farewell party at Friday’s EU summit. Even Barack Obama made a cameo video appearance.

According to Associated Press, attending her 107th summit, Merkel was feted by friend and foe alike in an informal ceremony behind closed doors early Friday, where they called her anything from a “compromise machine” to the EU’s Eiffel Tower.

“You are a monument,” said EU Council President Charles Michel, adding that a summit meeting without her will be like “Rome without the Vatican or Paris without the Eiffel Tower.”

Former U.S. president Obama was equally gushing. “So many people, girls and boys, men and women, have had a role model who they could look up to through challenging times,” he said. “I know because I am one of them.”