France is preparing to celebrate with great fanfare the 60e anniversary of the Elysée Treaty. Signed almost eighteen years after the Second World War by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French President Charles de Gaulle, the text had considerably strengthened cooperation between the two countries in the international field, defense and education. . Written in German and French, it is still considered today as “the” backbone of their relationship.
Symbolically, it is this same Sunday January 22 that the Franco-German Council of Ministers (CMFA) will take place, an annual meeting which had to be held by videoconference in May 2021 due to Covid, and which was all simply canceled in October 2022 against a backdrop of bickering between Paris and Berlin. Germany had just put in place a plan of 200 billion euros to help households and businesses against inflation, without having informed France or even the European authorities. “There hasn’t been a Franco-German couple for a long time, had then decided Hubert Védrine, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, on BFMTV. France and Germany have different positions on many subjects […] since the departure of Kohl and Mitterrand. In Paris, we discover it now ». This means that the summit meeting between Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron this weekend will be scrutinized.
It had been a long time since relations between the two neighbors had been so
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