In the midst of the pandemic crisis, in 2020, Angela Merkel had converted in a spectacular way to the idea of a joint loan to revive the economy of Europe, after stubborn persuasion by Emmanuel Macron.
But also from the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire to his counterpart at the time, Olaf Scholz.
Also, when the latter arrived at the Chancellery, Paris hastened to rejoice in an
"ideal alignment of the planets"
supposed to feed this new economic dynamic between France and Germany.
The ace.
Olaf Scholz may have decreed the advent of a
"new era"
(Zeitenwende), three days after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia,
"France does not always know how much this change of era is a reality for the German economy”
, emphasizes Yann Wernert, of the Jacques Delors Center in Berlin.
Hence a
“little hesitation”
in the relationship on multiple cooperation topics, which had led to the postponement of the Franco-German Council of Ministers scheduled for…
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