Critics fear Germany could put European unity on the line. Angela Merkel will have to tread carefully on her visit to China this week to avoid tripping over Hong Kong and stepping on Germany’s car industry. Angela Merkel will have to tread carefully on her visit to China this week to avoid tripping over Hong Kong and stepping on Germany’s car industry.

Poignées de main viriles, sourires complices et embrassades enthousiastes... Entre Emmanuel Macron et Donald Trump, c'est une amitié improbable, une "bromance" que l'on n'attendait pas. Le 13 septembre, "Complément d'enquête" dans les coulisses de cette relation hors normes entre deux chefs d'Etat. 

Selon Laurence Nardon, responsable du programme Etats-Unis à l'Institut français des relations internationale, Donald Trump est "pragmatique" et "s'il voit que les Européens et le Canada tiennent bon face à lui, il finira par céder". 

WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated a bitter clash with some of America’s closest allies on Sunday, lashing out through his advisers at Canada’s prime minister in unusually personal terms and leaving himself with a diplomatic crisis as he arrived in Asia to negotiate a nuclear agreement with North Korea.

PARIS - -- French President Emmanuel Macron has been notably active on the national scene since his election last year, launching initiatives aimed at modernizing France. He has also applied the same energy to foreign policy, with a global strategy dubbed "France is back."

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron was put on the spot this year in front of a room full of journalists when one asked, provocatively: Which man is more dangerous, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un; or Donald J. Trump?

La conduite de la politique étrangère américaine depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de Donald Trump déconcerte. Selon les sujets et selon les semaines, les déclarations et les décisions du président oscillent entre un positionnement nationaliste et le respect des pratiques de la diplomatie internationale. La psychologie du président ajoute à l’imprévisibilité, entre ses nombreux tweets (@realDonaldTrump), souvent agressifs, parfois ineptes, et ses réactions impulsives, telles que la frappe punitive d’avril 2017 en Syrie. 

French president will offer the US president and his wife dinner at the Eiffel Tower – among other delights. The US president, Donald Trump, has arrived in Paris and is due to be greeted with a show of military pomp by the French leader Emmanuel Macron, who has chosen to move from his aggressive first handshake and style himself as Trump’s new “straight-talking” best friend on the international stage.