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Stefan Kornelius, Munich
The Christian Occident comes into its own in a particularly peaceful way in Munich on a Sunday morning when the deep bells of the cathedral echo through the empty city center and the priest of the Greek-Orthodox metropolis in the small Salvatorkirche swings the censer with the bright little bells, his impressive number blessing sheep. However, this peaceful world quickly comes to an end a few hundred meters away, because between the cathedral and the Salvatorkirche is the Hotel Bayerischer Hof and thus the venue of the Munich Security Conference, in which the Occident is less Christian, but politically represented on this Sunday morning, precisely by the not particularly impressive EU Council President Charles Michel, which is not only, but may also be the reason why EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen jumps into a waiting car at this moment and rushes to the airport.