Emmanuel Macron will meet with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Friday. The two will then meet the new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The talks take place almost three weeks after the memorable Ukraine conference in Paris. At the subsequent press conference, the President did not publicly rule out sending ground troops for the first time, after which ScholZ publicly objected several times in the following days. "To put it bluntly: As German Chancellor, I will not send any soldiers from our Bundeswehr to Ukraine," said the SPD politician.