When he gets back into his Falcon 7X bearing the arms of the Republic, Friday March 15 at the end of the afternoon at Berlin airport, Emmanuel Macron looks satisfied.
Frank handshakes, strong smiles, military honors rendered on the square in front of the Chancellery, joint oaths of “unity making our strength more than ever”, all against the backdrop of “dear Olaf” and “dear Emmanuel”... This summit in "Weimar triangle format", as diplomats say, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, fulfilled its objective: to ease the strong Franco-German tension after the head of state's formula " not ruling out the sending of ground troops to Ukraine, which had turned away most of its allies, hostile to this idea.
Scholz had rejected it most sharply.
A certain acrimony had emerged in the discussions, with Macron calling, last week in Prague, to “not be cowardly”.
He did not target anyone by name, but the unease was palpable... In European capitals, this seismicity of the Franco-German "engine", a mark of possible disunity that Vladimir Putin wants to play at a time when the situation of the Ukrainians facing the Russian forces is difficult, worry.
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