In this crisis, our greatest strength is our unity, says Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has repeatedly shown his passionate commitment to Europe, as a European, amid the pandemic and also since the invasion of Ukraine. He has recently been in close contact with partners in Paris, Rome and Warsaw and Berlin has coordinated policies and embedded them in a European strategy, he says. "Anything that is perceived as a separate, German path, a Sonderweg, harms us, harms our security and harms Europe," Scholz stressed. -mb

Katrin Rulle