a new beginning and a new agreement?

A claimed complicity, perhaps a bit overplayed, between the two leaders. As if to make people forget that relations between our two countries have become strained over the past five years, more than ever in 50 years. With Brexit, the Franco-British couple experienced the era of stabbings. In 2021, the United Kingdom outweighs France on a large order for Australian submarines. Boris Johnson then responds to the anger of Paris in Franglais. “Give me a break,” he said. During the Covid, the most widely read British daily portrays Emmanuel Macron as Napoleon.

Two leaders in their forties, former bankers

The French president would have qualified Boris Johnson as a clown, in private. Then Liz Truss in the campaign, refuses to calm things down. But with Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron finally seems to have found a partner who speaks the same language. Two leaders in their forties, former bankers, who define themselves as pragmatists. All they have to do is tackle the burning issues. The main concern of the British government is the number of clandestine Channel crossings, which have exploded in recent years. After years of tension, the Heads of State and Government hammered home the idea of ​​a new start, of a clearer horizon.