Iran Press/ Europe: The outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her cabinet will continue to act as interim government until the new cabinet is established.
"A lot happened during the last four years. To say that the previous legislative period was difficult, considering the tasks that had to be solved, does not nearly reflect the real state of affairs," Tass Russian News Agency cited the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier as saying.
According to Steinmeier, "the (COVID) pandemic turned the world upside down."
"It took huge efforts from you, from the entire country," the President said, adding that the last few years were characterized by international tensions - the complicated Brexit and the previous US administration, "that had little concerns or none at all about the international order and the trans-Atlantic partnership."
"Europe’s internal unity remains unstable; reducing tensions, finding the balance of interests in Europe will remain one of the central goals of any new government," the President believes.
He noted that, in the last four years, Merkel’s cabinet adopted about 600 laws.
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