Berlin is already in charge of the rotating presidency of the European Union. In the next six months, it will be the German Government that will prepare and conduct the meetings of ministers of the twenty-seven and will have to be able to help build consensus, without overlapping German interest, to move European legislation forward and kick-start economic recovery.
Angela Merkel knows that it will not be easy for the European Union to emerge stronger and more united from the economic and health crisis caused by the covid-19, but that is the objective of the German chancellor who is a year away from being so. Of all European leaders, she has been in office for the longest time. She is 15 years at the helm of the chancellery and, after the sovereign debt crisis, she now faces the “greatest recession since the Second World War” – as she has already said – warning that it is necessary not to underestimate the impact of the pandemic. Whatever is done by the end of the year will also be considered your legacy.
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