on monday evening president franklin stein my i presented her with a grand cross of the order of maris pressing. michael, he said she held germany and europe together through times of crisis. but some critic save her political legacy, has been tarnished by recent events, including the russian invasion of ukraine. the former chancellor could choose her own guests for the ceremony at berlin. spell the palace among them current chancellor, whole of shorts and you commission precedent or to laugh on the line, but not a single member of the currency. do you leadership, president, dine, may or was very happy to own america with this extraordinary award for you also get very little ang, for you exceptionally long term in office and for your extraordinary political life, in which he used the experience of dictatorship so convincingly to strengthen democracy that he stuck on the democracy, t stein maya served in a melted cabinet as foreign minister, causing some eyebrows to be raised over his decision to honor his former boss. in his speech, he avoided addressing his and myrtles, russia policy