Can France and Germany’s new love-fest survive their lingering differences?
Paris and Berlin have been at loggerheads for years, but things are at last looking up.
The Franco-German couple (as the French say) or engine (as the Germans say) has rarely felt more in tune and more aligned. French and German officials are gushing that the relationship between incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron is already very close. In a sign of the budding entente, Merz has singled out Paris as his first foreign trip on May 7, as first reported by POLITICO.
“[Our] hope is that Macron, the Europhile, will at last find someone who can respond to him in Germany,” said a French diplomat who was granted anonymity to speak.
But how long will the honeymoon last will largely come down to where both men stand on key policy.
So here’s is the low-down on where Merz and Macron agree — and where they don’t.
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“There will be no blockage,” said Paul Maurice, a former French diplomat now with the French Institute of International Relations.
Secretary General of the Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri
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Secretary General of the Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri
