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Thank you, dear Angela
", wrote Wednesday, December 8 Emmanuel Macron in a message on Twitter welcoming the departure of Chancellor Angela Merkel, replaced Wednesday by the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz after 16 years at the head of Germany.
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Thank you, dear Angela, for never having forgotten the lessons of history, for having done so much for us, with us, to move Europe forward
", declared the French president in his message also translated into German.
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The tweet is completed by a video of two minutes of images of the multiple meetings between the two leaders since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017. Olaf Scholz is expected in Paris on Friday for his first visit as chancellor.