Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz reaffirm their support for Ukraine

Emmanuel Macron is in Berlin (Germany) on Monday May 9. In duplex for the 11 p.m. of Franceinfo, the journalist of France Télévisions, Guillaume Daret, is in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which was exceptionally in the colors of Ukraine. He explains that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the French President sent a symbolic message. “They reiterated, I quote, ‘their full and complete support for Ukraine’. A European message that they wished to send today while in Moscow (Russia), Vladimir Putin was making his speech”says the journalist.

A few hours earlier at a joint press conference, “The German chancellor said he found, and I quote, ‘very interesting’ Emmanuel Macron’s idea of ​​a European political community that could include countries like Ukraine”, reports Guillaume Daret. The reporter adds that this visit was “more particularly symbolic for the French president because it was his very first trip abroad since his inauguration, here in Berlin, as tradition dictates, to reaffirm the importance of the Franco-German relationship. Even if, we have seen it, we will have to work a little more, we obviously still have to strengthen this Franco-German couple between Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz while for years, the German partner was embodied by Angela Merkel “he explains.