After the display of disputes, the revival attempt. French President Emmanuel Macron receives German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, January 22 in Paris, to display a certain rediscovered unity, on the occasion of the solemn 60th anniversary of the reconciliation treaty between Germany and France. A ceremony at the Sorbonne, as well as a Franco-German council of ministers, are on the program. Follow our live.
A reunion after the disagreements of October. In October, a similar meeting had to be postponed due to disagreements on a series of key issues, from energy to defence. Result, the meeting between the first two powers of the European Union will this time be scrutinized closely to detect their degree of agreement.
“Every government tends to isolate itself”. In an interview with franceinfo, researcher Marie Krpata, researcher at the Committee for the Study of Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), discusses the evolution of relations between the two countries.
A symbolic date. This meeting is organized sixty years to the day after the signing of the Elysée Treaty by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. This treaty “marked the end of decades, if not centuries, of fierce rivalries and bloody wars”write the two leaders in a column published by the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Sunday newspaper.