Emmanuel Macron would have dreamed so much that Angela Merkel spoke to him like that! In 2017, when he unveiled his program for the relaunch of Europe at the Sorbonne, he had waited months for her to respond, no major European initiative being able to do without the Franco-German engine. In vain. The German Chancellor, paralyzed by the interminable negotiations for the formation of her coalition, had never taken the hand he extended to her. Worse: she had reproached him for the timing, deemed indelicate, and the solitary manner, deemed cavalier, of the speech at the Sorbonne. The nights spent on the floor in the European councils had ended up bringing together the two great leaders of Europe. But not to forget the skating of the European debut of the French president, in part due to German silences.
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