The trip has something conspiratorial. At the end of the week, Olaf Scholz wants to fly to Washington to have a conversation with Joe Biden – not on the phone, not on video, where you never know who is listening, but instead in person, eye to eye in the White House. Only his most important employees are allowed to come along. Journalists are not wanted in the government machine. He calls it a work visit.

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