Germany correspondent Thomas Sparrow

Thomas surveys the rising Ukraine/Russia tensions, is Europe close to war?. The EU and NATO are struggling to find a common position to deal with the crisis. And while other European countries might have already seen the peak of the Omicron wave, Germany is still very much in the middle of it, with record numbers of cases, over 200,000 a day, and many restrictions on public life. Thomas Sparrow is a political correspondent for Deutsche Welle, based in Berlin.