Gabriel Attal will meet Olaf Scholz on Monday for his first trip abroad. Meeting will cover all “bilateral, European and international subjects as well as questions of economic policy” The two officials will then hold a joint press conference, then have dinner at the chancellery.

French President Emmanuel Macron went to Berlin on January 22, where he praised the commitment to Franco-German friendship of former Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, in a speech mainly in German.