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Politico (10 December 2020)

By David M. Herszenhorn, Hans Von Der Burchard And Jacopo Barigazzi

This time, even Mutti couldn’t make everything better. 

For much of the past decade and a half, the EU could generally count on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to come to the rescue. But between the coronavirus pandemic, the dragged-out Brexit talks, a budget stalemate, and an array of geopolitical tensions especially in the Eastern Mediterranean, the year 2020 has turned into such a hellscape of policy problems, even Europe’s steady-handed matriarch has found herself outmatched.

Many of these problems come crashing together Thursday and Friday at the European Council’s summit, the final regularly-scheduled gathering of the 27 heads of state and government during Germany’s presidency of the Council of the EU.

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