Olaf Scholz is resistant to the warmongering flights of Emmanuel Macron. But the two leaders are responsible enough to display principled unity and common objectives in Ukraine.

“United and determined to never let Russia win”, on Friday they put the annoying question, that of a possible sending of troops, under the carpet. Putting “too many limits in his vocabulary” is certainly not a criticism that the Frenchman was addressing himself. In Europe, strategic differences are rarely resolved by anathema and “he who loves me follows me”