Center on the United States and Europe

If Italy fails, Europe fails.

The characteristics that distinguish her have come to the fore in the pandemic, which is measured, facts-based, evidence-based, consensus-oriented leadership. Germany wouldn't have weathered it so well had she not worked very hard at buying the scenery to get all the minister presidents in line.

[COVID-19 has] thrown a brutal spotlight on the flaws, deficiencies and the disrepair both for the international order and national order, and where there have been flaws and weaknesses, the pandemic has ripped through with particular brutality.