At a “mini-summit” in Berlin, the EU countries in the G20 closed ranks on Thursday 29 June, a week before what are expected to be tough climate and trade negotiations with the Trump administration.
While the summit of the world’s 20 largest economies, in Hamburg on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July “will not be easy, it will be constructive”, hoped German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the mini-summit.
The message coming out of that meeting was clear: Europe will be united at the G20...