In Berlin, Gabriel Attal sets the course for Europeans by targeting “the extremes”. For his first trip abroad, the new host of Matignon praised the unity of the EU in the face of “base instincts which try to scuttle it” The choice to go to Germany less than a month after becoming head of government marks his eagerness to occupy the European terrain.

“It was not always the choice of my predecessors to choose Germany and when they did it took a little time…”