of scientific experts the lay opal dina council which said yesterday that the country needs much stricter rules going up to perhaps even an extended christmas vacation where shops would be closed and social gatherings much more strictly limited so this was the mix the sober earnest real ism and almost maternal and courage meant and urging that we often saw from the chancellor during the 1st wave of the pandemic and that in fact makes her crisis communication when she doesn't gauge a net so effective as so much on the line for the chancellor chancellor merkel has many demands on her doesn't she. absolutely she will be heading from berlin to brussels to head what is perhaps one of the most important e.u. meetings of her entire time in office germany is currently the president of the e.u. council it's faced both with a still unsettled breck's it and the question of a trade agreement whether the e.u. and britain and britain can come to terms on a trade agreement plus the 7 year budget for the e.u. is being held up by poland and hungary which refused to accept a rule of law clause so that in t