Since Brexit, the Franco-German couple has been the only one to chart the course in the thick European fog. With the departure of the United Kingdom, France lost its strategic and military twin, the country with which it shared the same colonial past, an identical seat on the UN Security Council, the same capacity to intervene militarily in the foreigner, a global vision of the world and a nuclear capability. In short, a strategic alter ego that, despite all the efforts of Emmanuel Macron, Germany is unable to replace.
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The transatlantic fault, more visible than ever at the Munich security conference, was accompanied last weekend by a Franco-German lining. The second attempt of Emmanuel Macron, after the speech of the Sorbonne, to approach Berlin, was greeted freshly by the German political leaders. The calls for a development of the European defense were registered, but without enthusiasm by the pacifist Germany,
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