Black mask and blue blazer, Angela Merkel says " never imagined last year what 2020 would bring us ". Since taking office in November 2015, the German Chancellor has been confronted with a series of major banking, Euro, refugee and health crises. It is the first time that she is present in the room of the federal press conference, for the traditional meeting at the end of the summer with the journalists, with a protection on the face. The Chancellor describes the Covid crisis as a “ challenge for democracy ”. The one that the German media qualify as "Corona-Kanzlerin", Chancellor Covid, because of her good management of the crisis, will end the press conference with a personal response:“These are the spontaneous meetings, without having to wonder: how should I behave ” that he misses the most since the beginning of the epidemic.
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In her opening remarks, the name of the French president is the only one she cites: “ France and Germany,
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