The Coronavirus emergency will top the agenda of the European Union, when Germany takes over the rotating EU Council presidency in July 2020, the country's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas wrote in an opinion article in the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

“We will make it a 'corona presidency' to overcome corona and its consequences,” Maas wrote, as Germany will assume the Presidency from Croatia on July 1. One of the country's first tasks will be to gradually ease restrictions on free travel and the i...