Merkel receives Macron at the dawn of a decisive EU presidency

Text by: Anissa El Jabri Follow

Emmanuel Macron arrived on Monday in Meseberg, the German government residence 70 km from Berlin to speak with Angela Merkel just before the German presidency of the European Union, which begins on July 1 for 6 months.

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With our special correspondent in Meseberg

Here there are trees, fields, and even tractors. It is in this bucolic setting that Angela Merkel receives an Emmanuel Macron weakened by the defeat in the municipal elections of La Rem.

Newspapers, radios, TVs, all the German media talk about it. A fiasco is read in the press stamped on the right as on the left, in this country where there is more and more talk of the possibility for the Greens to govern soon. At the federal level. The ecological wave in France is observed with attention and interest.

The French president judged on this side of the Rhine in difficulty is greeted by a chancellor in good shape, acclaimed for his management of the Covid-19, the preferred political figure of the Germans after 15 years of power.

Angela Merkel, who is now thinking about her heritage, wants to move Europe forward. With Emmanuel Macron, she is preparing her presidency of the EU which begins this Wednesday. First on the menu is the post-coronavirus recovery plan, but also all the back-to-school files, such as Brexit.

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