Between dealing with the pandemic crisis and the "legally binding" dossiers, Germany has little room for manoeuvre in setting its priorities during its Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2020.
For its return to the helm of the EU Council for the first time since 2007, Germany will have to “make a radical prioritisation and reduction of the issues”, it was explained in Berlin. It will be a crisis management presidency, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced...