In the last few months of her term in office, Chancellor Angela Merkel has not come to rest.
They are calling for a flood disaster and corona.
The summer PK in the live ticker.
Chancellor Angela Merkel faces the press before the summer vacation.
The head of government speaks about the consequences and processing of the fatal storms, which particularly hit North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate hard.
The corona situation and foreign policy issues are also on the agenda.
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Berlin - There are eventful days behind Angela Merkel *.
On one of her last trips as Federal Chancellor *, the Christian Democrat visited the USA in mid-July.
US President Joe Biden * and Merkel affirmed the good German-American relationship.
Relations between the United States and Germany had suffered significantly under Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.
In the middle of the Chancellor's visit to the USA, the news broke that a flood disaster had occurred in several German states.
North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate were hardest hit.
According to official information (as of July 21, 2021) the fatal storm claimed at least 170 deaths.
Merkel-PK live: Chancellor speaks about flood disaster and corona situation
In the meantime, the Chancellor, who will no longer run in the Bundestag election * in September, has seen the situation in the affected areas for herself.
Merkel promised financial support, and on Wednesday (July 21) the federal cabinet launched emergency aid worth millions.
The aid package should have a volume of up to 400 million euros, the federal and state governments each want to contribute half of it.
The money is to be used to repair the worst damage to buildings and municipal infrastructure.
Special emergencies should also be bridged by this.
On Thursday (July 22nd) at 11 a.m., Chancellor Angela Merkel will face the assembled journalists for the annual summer press conference for the last time in her 16-year term in office. The CDU * politician will speak about the flood disaster in the west of the Federal Republic, the current Corona situation, but also foreign policy issues.
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