A signing of a "friendship and cooperation treaty" with Spain.
Chance of the calendar, Emmanuel Macron spends the day in Barcelona to discuss migration, defence, energy or youth issues with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, at a time when in France, the potentially massive demonstrations and strikes against his reform begin. retirements.
Discreet in recent days on the major reform of his second term, he may have to comment on this social mobilization during his joint press conference with the head of the Spanish government, or during a speech planned before the French community.
Judged as "highly symbolic" for the French presidency, this Franco-Spanish treaty is only the third of its kind signed in Europe by France after that of the Elysée, initialed in 1963 with Germany and since completed by that of Aix-la-Chapelle in 2019, and that of the Quirinal, signed with Italy in 2021.
The Franco-German engine seized up, Paris develops other relations
“What we are going to do in Barcelona is very important.
Because basically the linguistic, cultural and economic life (between the two countries) was far ahead of the political structure.
We have a real friendship with Pedro Sanchez.
And so there, we are really going to give a framework, ”said Emmanuel Macron in the Spanish daily
El Pais
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Paris wants to engrave in stone the strengthening of its relations with neighbors other than Germany, particularly in southern Europe, at a time when the Franco-German engine of the EU has often appeared out of breath.
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