On Tuesday morning, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will speak in the European Parliament. The date, May 9, is historic, not only because it marks the victory over Nazi Germany celebrated in Russia and elsewhere. On May 9, 1950, Robert Schuman presented his idea of a European Coal and Steel Community. It is unlikely that Olaf Scholz’s speech this Europe Day will be similarly visionary. According to Berlin, significant new impulses are hardly to be expected in Strasbourg. Scholz had already presented his European policy ideas in Prague last summer.