Speaking at a formal sitting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday 4 April, new German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticised the UK decision to leave the European Union and called for populism to be resisted.
Steinmeier made clear his determination to defend Europe against the prophets of doom: “I want Europe to be the way most Germans want it to be. We don’t want to turn the clock back to the dark days of the past”. “It is irresponsible to try to make people...