Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Germany's EU Presidency Report Card: Did Merkel Succeed or Fail as the EU President? - TLDR News" video.

I think it was a success considering the circumstances of the last 6 months, yeah I'm sure many of us would have liked more but we have to be realistic of the hard times over the last 6 months and the coming years. Still, big changes are still very likely to come over the coming years but for now, the pandemic should be the main focus. Also with Biden taking power in the US, EU-US relations should get better.
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I have to agree with that, I'm British but even I would have more faith in the Germans doing a better job than our own government does in the UK lol.
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@StudioBrock1337 Never assume that but Biden and even the Democrats are more pragmatic but I agree, relations are not likely going to go to what they were before Trump and it will take some doing from the US to repair ties because the EU is always looking else ware. We should also remember that there is still an army of Trump supporters in the US, they won't just go away and the likes of Trump got into power because of deep-rooted issues in the US which are not going to be easy to fix, at least over the short term. But with a rising China and one that can be quite aggressive, it's in the interest of both the EU and US to work closer together if they want to protect western values as well as western political, economic and social interest because that could be under threat with power quickly shifting from west to east, this pandemic hasn't done the west any favours in how badly they've handled it.
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@Arsenic71 I don't and I'm British living in the UK, I think a bad Brexit deal is what the UK needed because so many lies about the EU have been told for decades from the media to government that it stuck, now the British people will get a reality check and hopefully in time, that will change views in that the EU was never really the problem and the problem is much closer to home. Basically now, the British people have no excuses, they've deflected blame else ware and now that would be a lot harder to do, that's when things will really get interesting when it dawns on people that things are not getting better and could be getting worse, we might be seeing early signs of that already but it will takes years, maybe even decades before the message sinks in.
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@0xCAFEF00D Nah I doubt that, Trump was a wake-up call for Europeans, Biden being president won't change the reality that the EU countries will have to distant themselves more from the US but that doesn't mean the EU and US can't work closer together in many areas now Biden is in power, but it won't be a return to normal and I think Europeans understand that, basically, the EU and countries are going to look more after their own interest and not American intrest and we are already seeing early signs of that already, that deal with China for instant or that deal with Russia on that pipeline. In any case, the real thing that will force the EU and US to become closer will be China, as much disagreement the EU and US might have with each other, they both see China as a threat and that threat is only going to grow in the coming decades that the EU or US on their own will find difficult to contain and that will likely force the EU and US to work closer together as they are the two main players when it comes to western values.
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@swanpride Yeah can't really fault Germany, it was a difficult time with a lot going on and they handled it quite well, for me, Germany was the right country at the right time to take over on that.
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