The French president was to travel across the Rhine from Sunday to Tuesday for a state visit, postponed in a context of heightened tensions in France since the death of a teenager in Nanterre.
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Emmanuel Macron postpones his state visit to Germany, originally scheduled for July 2-4. “Given the internal situation, the President of the Republic has indicated that he wishes to be able to stay in France for the next few days”announced the Elysee Palace on Saturday, the day after the fourth consecutive night of urban violence after the death of a teenager in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) on June 27. The Presidency specifies that this decision was taken after a meeting between the French Head of State and the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Paris and Berlin have agreed to postpone this state visit to Germany “at a later date”added the presidency.
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“The German President regrets the cancellation and fully understands because of the situation” in France, said the German presidency in a press release (in German). Frank-Walter Steinmeier “Following the situation in France with great attention. He hopes that the violence in the streets will soon stop and that social peace can once again be restored”is added.
This trip was eagerly awaited, 23 years after the last state visit of a French president across the Rhine, that of Jacques Chirac in 2000. At the end of last March, it was the state visit of King Charles III to France which had to be canceled due to the social crisis linked to the pension reform.