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Angela Merkel continues her farewell tour in France with a visit to Beaune, Côte-d’Or, to meet Emmanuel Macron. During 16 years at the head of Germany, with four renewed terms, the Chancellor has known four French presidents.
Final meeting with his French counterpart for the German Chancellor. Angela Merkel is to meet Emmanuel Macron in Beaune (Côte-d’Or), Wednesday, November 3. In 16 years at the head of Germany, she has experienced four French presidents and as many crises alongside them. In 2005, France has just voted against the draft European constitution. A first meeting is organized with Jacques Chirac in a delicate context. Their hand-kissing has remained famous.
Two years later Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are divided on the subject of the financial crisis. “We had to learn to work together, to overcome many problems and difficulties,” testified the President of the Republic. The European stimulus plan wanted by the French president will never see the light of day, but the “Merkozy” couple impose the budgetary stability pact.
The Chancellor would have liked to see Sarkozy reelected, but she must then deal with French Hollande. She is present during the parade of January 11, 2015, after the Charlie Hebdo attack. Last crisis: that of the Covid-19. With Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel puts aside her budgetary rigor and accepts for the first time that European countries go into debt together. Emmanuel Macron will be the last president to welcome him to France in Beaune, where François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl went in 1993.