German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, together with the heads of state of Austria and Italy, has called for the defence of European values in the European elections in June. “We see around the world that the fundamental values of pluralism, human rights and the rule of law – our values – are being called into question, if not openly threatened. Nothing less than the foundations of our democratic order are at stake,” Steinmeier, Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Italian President Sergio Mattarella wrote in a guest article for the German news magazine Tagesspiegel’s Sat…