months ago that Angela Merkel prepares for its presidency of the european Union. Months of interdepartmental meetings, exchanges of notes, appointments within its permanent representation in Brussels. But the chancellor could not predict that a virus tiny rebattrait totally the maps of the six-month rotating presidency, German, the launch of which is given on the 1st of July. "Don't expect too much of a single presidency for a second half, that is to say, four months' net (since the summer break and the Christmas holidays, ED) ", says a German diplomat.

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