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On the front page of the press, this Monday, January 23, the meeting, yesterday, between French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty.
Sixty years to the day after the signing of the Franco-German reconciliation treaty, the two leaders have multiplied declarations of friendship, describing their couple as two "souls beating in the same chest".
The declaration is beautiful but will it be enough to "relaunch" the Franco-German engine?
In any case, it inspires
L'Opinion
, which spins the metaphor: "What couple doesn't need to reinvent itself from time to time? A getaway, a restaurant. We evoke good memories and leave problems behind. , the time of a parenthesis".
IRA, energy, defense ... Paris and Berlin relaunch the engine https://t.co/WJ89xrcu1v
— l'Opinion (@lopinion_fr) January 23, 2023
Take the time to rediscover yourself, to better move forward: the newspaper recalls that after several months of tension between Paris and Berlin, this was precisely the expected role of this 60th anniversary.
The Franco-German couple, whom
Le Figaro
sees put to the test of the "Russian poison", by the Russian invasion in Ukraine which "marginalized the Franco-German cement that founded the EU".
The newspaper evokes countries of central and eastern Europe, which no longer accept Franco-German leadership.
The fault, in large part, is "hesitation in Paris and Berlin to support Ukraine" and "their determination to maintain a dialogue with Vladimir Putin", according to the newspaper.
"Auf die Freundschaft" ("To friendship"), headlines the Rheinische Post
this morning
, evoking the "emotion" of Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, faced with the history between their two countries, but also 'the current tensions between the two partners' and frustrations, including in Germany in the face of the 'wait-and-see' attitude of the Chancellor, who still refuses to deliver his famous Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Even if Olaf Scholz has let go of ballast in recent hours, finally accepting that Poland exports these combat tanks to Ukraine.
The magazine
Die Zeit
presents the Franco-German couple as "friends (admittedly) inseparable, but with different interests", particularly in terms of energy.
The newspaper reports on the "increasing pressure" exerted on the Chancellor, so that he agrees to deliver his Leopard tanks and the remarks of Emmanuel Macron, who declared, for his part, to exclude "nothing" concerning the delivery of Leclerc tanks to Ukraine.
The
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
seems in a hurry, too, to see the Franco-German couple hastening the pace.
"We must now move from words to deeds, both in armament projects and in energy supply", asks the Frankfurt daily.
Olaf Scholz, still and always under pressure to deliver his tanks to Ukraine, it is also to be seen in the drawing of Blower, for
The
Daily Telegraph
, which shows the inflexible chancellor, facing his NATO interlocutors. Not for Kiev", indicate its Leopard tanks. "And if we changed their spots?", Proposes a member of the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Telegraph cartoon 23.1.23 #nato #Leopard2 #PutinWarCriminal #RussiaUkraineWar #SlavaUkraini pic.twitter.com/0ZZZ03x6mT
— patrick blower (@blowercartoons) January 23, 2023
A Franco-German couple in difficulty and a failing relationship.
Saturday, January 21, the Burkinabè News Agency said that the government had "acted" the French military withdrawal
,
within a month.
According to the news agency, the 400 members of the special forces of Operation Saber would therefore have a month to pack up.
An announcement greeted with caution by
Le Parisien / Today in France
, which reports that Emmanuel Macron says he is waiting for "clarifications" from Ouagadougou.
The newspaper evokes "an impression of deja-vu", "a situation which recalls what took place in Mali in 2022".
On the side of the African press, in any case, this announcement is "not a surprise".
The Djely
explains that the dismissal of French soldiers is in fact part of the "logic" of relations between France and Burkina since Captain Ibrahim Traoré came to power last October.
And for the Guinean news site, it is time for Paris to "question itself" once and for all about the reproaches made to it in Africa.
"Let's be clear, with its soldiers, France has always remained master on board in its former colonies. According to its interests, it has protected the leaders in its pay and ejected those who have tried to emancipate themselves from them? has therefore never been a question of human rights and democracy. It has therefore never been a question of values. Interests and nothing but interests",
stings Le Djély
.
"The rejection of France in Africa should no longer be treated with banality and simplism" https://t.co/hu1rSBfHkC #TL224 #Kibaro @FredericCouteau @RFIAfrique
— LeDjely.com (@ledjely) January 23, 2023
Same story with the Burkinabé daily
Le Pays
.
"One thing is certain, it is one more snub for France, whose paternalistic, hegemonic and ambivalent policy has ended up anchoring in Burkinabè opinion the feeling that the objectives of its military presence have always been vague and have not never been in accordance with the interests of the country", criticizes the newspaper.
He believes that "the time has come for Burkina to take responsibility and rely on its own forces in (the) war against terrorism", but warns that "the support of (its) partners, hence he comes, will not be too much to restore order and security as quickly as possible".
We don't leave each other on this.
A word, to finish, of one of the most famous pieces of classical music, massacred by generations and generations of apprentice pianists.
I am of course talking about the famous "Letter to Élise", composed by Beethoven in 1810 - an "Élise" that musicologists have sought to identify for years and years.
In vain.
And for good reason:
The Guardian
reports that a great specialist in the German composer has come to the conclusion that there has never actually been an Elise.
We learn in passing that Beethoven is certainly one of the greatest composers of all time, but that he never had any luck in love, always falling in love with inaccessible women.
Who was Beethoven's mysterious Elise?
Historian concludes she never existed https://t.co/cFXibFau5R
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 22, 2023
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