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The rejection of the candidacy of Sylvie Goulard complicates the relations between Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. Nicholas Kamm / POOL / AFP

This Sunday, October 13, the German Chancellor is received at the Elysee Palace by the French president. At the center center meets the Franco-German Council of Ministers Wednesday in Toulouse and the European Council at the end of the week. Not to mention the failure of Sylvie Goulard's candidacy for the post of Commissioner for the Internal Market.

With our correspondent in Berlin , Pascal Thibaut

A failure, even a humiliation for Emmanuel Macron. Thus, the rejection of Sylvie Goulard's candidacy by the European Parliament was perceived in the German press. Some satisfaction was readable between the lines: the initial "macronmania" in the media over the Rhine has often given way to some irritation against a game deemed too lonely French president .

The ethical standards for the political class, stricter in Germany than in France, explain the doubts about the choice of Sylvie Goulard . At the same time, his European profile has been hailed by many observers in the country.

In Berlin, you do not feel responsible for your failure. The general secretary of the CDU tried to influence MEPs in his favor. But on arrival, the parliamentary groups decided sovereignly. And it is not only the conservatives who have rejected Sylvie Goulard: the German Green MPs in the European Parliament were not convinced either.

French failure complicates the relationship with Berlin

Moreover, the future president of the commission Ursula von der Leyen criticized by Paris, even if it is close to Angela Merkel, is no longer a member of the German government.

In the end, this French failure complicates a little more things in the Franco-German relationship, while Paris and Berlin are struggling to agree on different issues.

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