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In a strategic turn, Berlin moves away from Paris

2022-10-23T17:37:57.488Z


DECRYPTION - The tandem with France is no longer at the heart of Germany's policy, tempted to increasingly embrace the Eastern cause within the European Union.


Correspondent in Berlin

After the “agenda” problems, place for the “strategic redefinition” of Franco-German relations.

It did not take Bruno Le Maire twenty-four hours to abandon the diplomatic version justifying the postponement of the Franco-German Council of Ministers, scheduled for October 26.

The Paris-Berlin couple is going through “

difficult

” times, the Minister of Finance finally admitted, while the German civil servants involved in the Fontainebleau meeting did not hide their boredom at having to comply with this imposed exercise.

Exit the Council of Ministers.

Wednesday at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz will look directly at the patient, whose state of health does not inspire the same concern on either side of the Rhine.

In Berlin, where the government's attention is focused on domestic economic difficulties, the estrangement has gone relatively unnoticed.

This apathy is not made to reassure Paris, which sees in it the symptom of a…

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Source: lefigaro

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