Merkel faces tough time in Hamburg
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s role as host of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg will not be easy should the US administration decide to pull out of the Paris Agreement, because other countries – “the eternal laggards” – would “relapse into old blockade positions”, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Many speak of a European-Chinese axis, but it seems questionable if the weakened EU and China alone are strong enough to pull the climate train against growing opposition,” writes Mihm.
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