Populists are waiting for “the breach” within the Franco-German couple, warns Gabriel Attal in Berlin. “There are always difficult moments in the relationship between France and Germany.

But these moments must never make us go backwards” and “never make us give up,” added Attal, who is making his first trip to Berlin to abroad and spoke to the French community at the French embassy. The war in Ukraine has exposed several fundamental differences in the historic alliance of the two countries, the driving force behind European construction.