germany has been giving to the united nations or 300000000 you can see for example that the world food program will receive a good portion of that or the united nations high commission of refugees or the red cross so that gives you an idea of what is going to happen with the money that germany has now plagued. germany has also helped itself out understandably notably with the government's half a trillion euro bailout fund for struggling companies just in relative terms how it generous is the u.n. contribution obviously it's important for the u.n. and for the goals that the u.n. has but this is only one part of germany's efforts worldwide germany has said that obviously solidarity is a key aspect of its foreign policy in particular when it comes to the pandemic but it is also by the way nic a very controversial issue when you look for example in europe at that issue of solidarity there are different views among european countries as to what that solidarity should look like and in particular there's also criticism from some countries is the way germany is looking at solidarity we saw that for example of the european level also this week but in general germany is indee