The long back and forth about Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s trip shows that he may not be the right president for this time, but for the Germans he is the right one.
That would have been it: if Frank-Walter Steinmeier had suddenly peeked into the picture on this Tuesday morning and waved at the participants of the top-class conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine in Berlin’s Westhafen from the sparse room in Kyiv from which his Ukrainian counterpart has been switched on. Cracking laughter, a slapping hand on Selenskyj’s shoulder, which is clad in olive green.