During her presentation on the evening of Wednesday 27 May of Germany's foreign policy priorities for its Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2020, Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed the hope that Europe will be able to “come out of the crisis stronger than it went into it”.
Speaking in an online debate organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, she emphasised the EU's “solidarity” and “responsibility” at a time when “the pandemic is going to...