Published
Video duration: 5 min
Press conference by Gabriel Attal and Olaf Scholz in Berlin: “it’s a special visit”, according to a historian specializing in Germany
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is visiting Berlin (Germany) on Monday January 5. He met Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Both held a press conference. Joseph de Weck, historian and Europe director of Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical risk consulting firm, and specialist in Germany, was the guest of 19/20 info. – (franceinfo)
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is visiting Berlin (Germany) on Monday January 5. He met Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Both held a press conference. Joseph de Weck, historian and Europe director of Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical risk consulting firm, and specialist in Germany, was the guest of 19/20 info.
French presidents or prime ministers often reserve their first foreign visit to Germany. “It’s a tradition, for a Prime Minister, it’s a special visit, in foreign policy it’s not really he who has the skills in France, but on matters of economic policy and EuropeanGermany remains its main partner“, analyzes Joseph de Weck, historian and Europe director of Greenmantle. According to the guest, the objective is to demonstrate that Gabriel Attal is taken seriously.
A situation “comparable to 2002”
Concerning the rise of the extreme right in Germany, Joseph de Weck estimates that it is comparable in France to “2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen went to the second round of the presidential election (…) all of France realized that this country had a real problem with the extreme right. Now, in Germany, we are at this that moment“.
