The only problem in this story is that Helmut Kohl, the German Chancellor from 1982 to 1998, passed away in 2017, four years before the mentioned G7 meeting. Apparently, Biden did not mean Kohl ...

When Helmut Kohl came to power in 1982, there was no shortage of mockers who saw him as the "transitional chancellor". Declared politically dead several times, Kohl nevertheless became the longest ...