Joseph de Weck is a columnist with the German foreign affairs magazine Internationale Politik Quarterly and a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Emmanuel Macron: The Revolutionary President and is the Europe director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic advisory firm.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to the chancellor’s office in Berlin on May 15, 2017.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Chinese President Xi Jinping are seen on a screen during a video conference to approve an investment pact between China and the European Union in Brussels on Dec. 30, 2020.
A pedestrian looks at an illuminated map board in the empty streets of the Alpine resort of Zermatt, with the Matterhorn mountain amid the spread of the COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus.
Querdenker, or “lateral thinker,” is written on the sign of a participant at a march against Germany’s COVID-19 measures across the Oberkassel Bridge in Düsseldorf on Sept. 20.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel bump elbows at the end of a news conference in Brussels on July 21.
