16 July 2021, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz: In the state chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (below), the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (centre), and Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (second from left, both SPD) appear on a monitor. The Chancellor, who is in Washington, was connected to the Rhineland-Palatinate crisis team in a video conference. The crisis committee had met at police headquarters in Koblenz to discuss the situation after the flood disaster on the Ahr and Moselle rivers. Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa