Starmer’s Berlin trip was a real success. But let’s not confuse Germany with the EU | Helene von Bismarck

It is just as easy to underestimate the significance of Starmer’s trip, as it is to overstate it. Admittedly, as a German, I find baffling some of the reactions from the British commentariat. There is, for instance, great excitement that the prime minister has now met the German chancellor five times since Starmer took office barely two months ago. In the weeks after the UK election, Olaf Scholz and Starmer saw each other at the Nato summit, the Euro finals in Berlin and at a gathering of the European political community at Blenheim Palace.