“Angela!
Angela!
Well done !
"," Danke Mutti!
», Shouted the crowd which awaited the leader as well as the president Emmanuel Macron in Beaune, mecca of wine-growing Burgundy.
After 16 years in power, during which she worked closely with four French presidents, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was invited to Burgundy by President Emmanuel Macron to bid farewell to France.
The atmosphere was very friendly between the two leaders, who greeted each other with a warm hug.
They then visited the famous Hospices de Beaune and dined at the Château du Clos de Vougeot, an emblematic monument of wine-growing Burgundy located in the midst of the greatest vintages.
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Olivier JUSZCZAK
After 16 years in power, during which she worked closely with four French presidents, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was invited to Burgundy by President Emmanuel Macron to bid farewell to France.
One of the highlights of the day was the presentation by Emmanuel Macron of the Grand'Croix, the highest distinction of the order of the Legion of Honor, to the Chancellor.
A decoration, awarded to Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schroeder, and which "embodies the strength of the Franco-German friendship, maintained by Angela Merkel", according to the French presidency.
The president offered her several gifts, including the document attesting to her first visit to France when she was deputy spokesperson for a delegation from the GDR in 1990, before reunification.
At the end, she took Emmanuel Macron in her arms, to the applause of the twenty people present.
With a relaxed attitude, the Chancellor accompanied the French President with a smile, alongside their respective husbands, Brigitte Macron and Joachim Sauer, to greet the hundreds of people gathered.
On their arrival in Beaune, the President and the Chancellor visited the famous Hospices de Beaune, a 15th century architectural gem in a flamboyant Gothic style.
Here, the room of the Poor of the Hotel-Dieu of the Hospices de Beaune.
Since the 2017 presidential election, the relationship between Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel has evolved considerably.
They have thus succeeded, over time, in building a solid relationship of trust, according to numerous witnesses.
They then met at the Château du Clos de Vougeot, an emblematic monument of wine-growing Burgundy located in the midst of the greatest vintages.
Before Emmanuel Macron, the German head of state had to adapt to the very different characters of French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande.
The Chancellor must leave politics after the constitution of a new government expected in December and currently negotiated by the Social Democrats (SPD), winners of the legislative elections of September 26, with the ecologists and the liberals.
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