The war in Ukraine and the possible American disengagement are causing the Franco-German engine to explode.
Paris and Berlin have always clashed on all subjects, whether it be the economy, defense or nuclear power.
In the fall of 2022, disagreements between the two capitals even led to the cancellation of a Franco-German summit.
But the compromises between these two unnatural, but essential, allies in European construction had until then made it possible to overcome the crises and move forward side by side, even if staggering.
Today the difficulties of the Ukrainian army on the ground, after two years of war, call into question the apparent unity that existed between France and Germany on the subject.
At the end of the conference in support of Ukraine organized at the Élysée on February 26, Emmanuel Macron violently attacked the German chancellor, denouncing his procrastination since the start of the war and mocking his proposal, at the start of the conflict, to send helmets…
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