(ANSA) - PARIS, JAN 22 - "We will continue to provide Ukraine, as long as it is necessary, with all the support it needs": the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, promised today, alongside the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
"Together, as Europeans, in order to defend our European peace project", added Scholz, in a ceremony at the Sorbonne for the 60th anniversary of the Elysee treaty for reconciliation between Germany and France.
Emmanuel Macron, taking over the German chancellor on stage at the Sorbonne, underlined the "irreducible support" of the two countries for the Ukrainian people "in all sectors".
"After 24 February - added the French president - our union has neither divided nor vanished in the face of its responsibilities".
The ceremony at the Sorbonne was organized to show the new-found unity between the two countries, whose relations have gone through some difficulties in recent months, in particular due to the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
"The future, like the past - added Scholz in turn - is based on cooperation between our two countries, as the locomotive of a united Europe".
The chancellor defined the "French-German engine" as a "compromise mechanism" capable of "transforming disputes and divergent interests into univocal action".
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