Emmanuel Macron greeted Wednesday, December 8 the election of the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, promising him to write "
the rest together
", "
for the French, for the Germans, for the Europeans
", in a message posted on Twitter.
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Two and a half months after the elections in Germany, the Social Democrat was elected Wednesday at the head of the German government by the deputies, definitively closing the 16 years of the Angela Merkel era.
In another tweet, Emmanuel Macron thanked the former chancellor for "
never having forgotten the lessons of history, for having done so much for us, with us, to move Europe forward.
"