In presenting the programme of the German EU Council Presidency, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas focused on partnerships with China, the USA and Africa.
Faced with a “constellation of great powers” - China, the US, Russia - Europeans must work together to defend their values and the EU must become part of the competition on foreign and security policy issues, he explained at a virtual press conference. Otherwise, he said, Europeans will be weakened and will not be able, in the medium and...