The icy relations within the Franco-German “couple” are beginning to make people talk in the European village.
To silence the gossips, Emmanuel Macron will receive Olaf Scholz this Wednesday at the Elysée: the two men will storm of courtesies and promises of cooperation to overcome differences of analysis or interests that they will work to minimize .
But who will be fooled?
What is at work today is part of a profound geostrategic shift, a continental drift that began a long time ago and promises to transform the face of Europe for a long time.
It is sometimes difficult to measure, in France, the extent of the shock caused across the Rhine by the war in Ukraine.
The Russian aggression there arouses at the same time a questioning of the economic model, an awareness of the security challenges and a feeling of guilt towards neighbors on the front line in the north and east.
Germany is suddenly becoming a geopolitical player again, and it's not to play the role of figurative play...
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