GERMANY PERSPECTIVE

Berlin approaches the outbreak with the seriousness of a multilateral power and the immediate backdrop of the World Cup. FAZ runs a profile of WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus, cast at the front line of the fight against Ebola, and closely tracks the US-Kenya dispute over the quarantine camp. Deutsche Welle poses the question obsessing the footballing world: 'Does Ebola have consequences for the 2026 World Cup?' and documents the American demand — 'the US demands measures from Europe' — to stem possible spread via fans. But the most distinctly German angle is carried by Tagesschau, in an exclusive interview with Annalena Baerbock, now President of the UN General Assembly: the former German foreign minister warns that the UN funding cuts, driven largely by the partial halt of American payments, already translate concretely in Africa into people 'starving' for lack of World Food Programme distribution. The German framing thus connects three threads few others link: the Ebola flare-up, the American financial disengagement from multilateral institutions, and the health risk to a transatlantic World Cup. The tone is measured, institutional, intent on defending the multilateral architecture Washington is weakening.