France’s president Emmanuel Macron and Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz emphasised the great relationship between the 2 international locations on the eve of the Franco-German Council of Ministers. Merz obtained Macron within the night at Bensberg Citadel close to Cologne to arrange for the federal government assembly that can happen on Friday at Augustusburg Citadel in Brühl.
The Chancellor identified the historic significance of the convention location. That is “the place, the sq., the fortress” during which France’s then President Charles de Gaulle supplied a German-French friendship treaty to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer 65 years in the past. This Élysée Treaty stays “the idea for our work to today,” he mentioned Merz.
Comparable optimistic phrases had been additionally discovered France President: “I feel I can say that the previous few months have introduced an actual Franco-German rapprochement within the European agenda.” There’s rising settlement on European points.
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