Garvan Walshe: Merkeldammerung. Germany’s polls put the Greens within striking distance of government.

A traffic light coalition? A Jamaica coalition? Who knows? What’s certain is that the CDU/CSU is struggling amidst a fragmenting landscape.

Iain Dale: People will die as a result of the EU’s Covid games. But don’t expect the media to criticise Saint Macron.

The British government has been commendably muted on the behaviour of von der Leyen and other politicians.

Macron and others played politics with AstraZeneca. The consequences for many EU citizens are fatal.

Some leaders realise the seriousness of the problem. Merkel’s spokesman has pleaded with Germans to take the “safe and highly effective” jab.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson the statesman is working for open borders by sea and land

Johnson the politician laid an ambush for Starmer, inducing him to deny ever having wanted Britain to stay in the European Medicines Agency.

Instead of EU vaccine nationalism, let’s have UK vaccine internationalism

As Johnson put it yesterday: “we can’t think of this just as a project for us and us alone”.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Johnson beams like a schoolboy who has got his hands on an enormous cake

Like his most witty and nimble predecessor, Disraeli, Johnson finds that a majority is always better than the best repartee.

David Lidington: We have left the EU and there is no turning back. Here’s what our new relationship with Europe should look like.

Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.

WATCH: “It was a long and winding road, but we have got a good deal to show for it” – Von der Leyen

“It is fair, it is a balanced deal and it is the right and responsible thing to do”, says the President of the European Commission.

Roderick Crawford: Brexit and trade. What we are and aren’t committed to in order to help bring about a level playing field

The Political Declaration approves non-regression but not dynamic alignment – elements of which the EU has backed off from.

Johnson’s Brexit journalism and Brexit politics are of a piece: in both he thrives by infuriating the Establishment

Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.

WATCH: Von der Leyen says that the Brexit talks are to continue

The EU and UK negotiators have been mandated to “go the extra mile” to see if a Brexit deal can be found, she says, after a phone call with Johnson.

“Frank discussion.” The Prime Minister’s statement on yesterday evening’s Brexit trade negotiation summit.

“A firm decision should be taken about the future of the talks by Sunday.” There is no joint statement.

Johnson to fly to Brussels. Triumph, sellout, last-ditch gamble – or simply showing willing before talks collapse?

The commonsense presumption must be that he wouldn’t be going at all were a deal not at least possible.

Stephen Booth: Agreeing to disagree on the trickiest parts of the UK-EU deal may be the best way forward. For now.

Creating temporary arrangements around fishing and other areas may not be ideal, but it is a better option than the prospect of no deal.

Ed McGuinness: A lesson for democracy in Europe from an abandoned airport in Cyprus

The EU is caught between making more effective decisions and compromising its smaller members’ interests.