“You will see. For a few weeks, we will hear that Germany is back in Europe. But it will not last ”let go of a European diplomat, while the new chancellor, the Christian democrat Friedrich Merz, was in Brussels on Friday May 9, on this day of celebration of the 75e Anniversary of the Schuman declaration, which had proposed the creation of the European coal and steel community. He met Antonio Costa, the president of the European Council, his compatriot Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the commission, as well as the secretary general of the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty, Mark Rutte.
The arrival at the Chancellery of Friedrich Merz was eagerly awaited by the European sphere, where no one regrets its predecessor. Stuck by a coalition that is difficult to govern, entangled in the crisis of the German model, unable to work with Paris, the social democrat Olaf Scholz has indeed not invested in community affairs, which have suffered from the wait-and-see attitude of Berlin.
“My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible”had launched Friedrich Merz at the evening of the legislative elections he won on February 23. Since taking office, on May 6, he wanted to give shape to this strategy by first going to Paris and then in Warsaw and Brussels, “On the third day of [s]We mandate “he insisted on Friday. The chancellor repeated his attachment to the European Union (EU), which he had already served when he was MEP between 1989 and 1994, “At the time of reunification” German. “In a way, I go home to Brussels, I go home to Europe”he launched.
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Source: Lemonde