US President Joe Biden was awarded Germany’s highest honour, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a ceremony in Berlin on Friday. Steinmeier told Biden that Germany is bestowing the honour, a special class reserved for heads of state, for “your decades-long dedication to the trans-Atlantic alliance, your outstanding political leadership in Europe’s most dangerous moment and your lasting moral example of service, sincerity and decency.” Steinmeier also described Biden as “a beacon of democracy” at a time when political extremism has placed it und…