After the display of disputes, the attempted startle.
Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz displayed this Sunday in Paris a found unit of the Franco-German "locomotive", called to become "pioneer for the refoundation of Europe".
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reconciliation treaty between the two countries, while the Old Continent has been plunged back into war for eleven months, the French president assured that this "couple" would "choose the future", as he "knew how to do at each turning point in European construction".
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“Germany and France, because they have cleared the path to reconciliation, must become pioneers for the rebuilding of our Europe,” he declared in a willingly lyrical speech at the Sorbonne.
He described the neighbors as "two souls in one chest".
A “fraternal couple”
"The future, just like the past, is based on the cooperation of our two countries", "as the locomotive of a united Europe", capable of overcoming their "differences", abounded for his part the German Chancellor, evoking a "fraternal couple".
He spun the metaphor of this "Franco-German engine" which often "purrs softly", which "does not work with flattery" but by the "firm will to always transform controversies" into "convergent action".
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The two leaders were then to convene a Franco-German council of ministers at the Elysée.
In October, this annual meeting had to be postponed due to disagreements on a series of key issues, from energy to defence, which came to light in the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine. .
Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron affirmed with one voice the objective, dear to the French president, of a more "sovereign" Europe, by investing more in defense and in industry.
“Vladimir Putin's imperialism will not win!
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The two leaders could discuss whether to send heavy tanks to kyiv, as pressure grows on Berlin to deliver its Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian army.
At the Sorbonne, Olaf Scholz confined himself to assuring that France and Germany would continue “to provide Ukraine, as long as necessary, with all the support it needs”.
“Vladimir Putin's imperialism will not win!
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The latter, in his speech, said he "shared" with Emmanuel Macron the "objectives" aimed at making "the investments" necessary for the Old Continent to become "a global hub of technologies of the future", and the first "climate neutral". in the world.
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The two neighbors must also try to agree on European reforms to stem the surge in energy prices linked in particular to the war in Ukraine, and put forward joint projects in terms of innovation.
A train ticket designed to encourage young people to travel between the two countries will also be launched.
Alongside the governments, parliamentary delegations from the two countries also met in Paris.
The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet and her counterpart in the Bundestag Bärbel Bas paid tribute at the Pantheon to Simone Veil, “a great European” and “a woman of convictions” of whom they said they wanted to carry the “torch”.
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