The new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made his debut in global affairs with plans to associate himself immediately with Allies in France and Poland to present a United European Front for Ukraine and against the trade war of the American president Donald Trump.
The new pairing of Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron, both believing farms in the European Union, could help to stiffen the resistance of the 27 nations against Trump pressure and the Russian war in Ukraine.
With the biggest EU economies and populations, the Tandem of Germany and France has long supported the block of 27 nations, but has lost part of its vigor in recent months when the leaders of the two countries were fighting with domestic problems.
Merz and Macron hope to give the relationship a new impulse at a crucial moment, Trump and the Russian president Vladimir Putin both exerting pressure on the EU and forcing him to rethink his own security.
Merz’s trips will take place the day after its historic defeat during the first voting series in the German Parliament, the Bundestag.
No other post-war candidate for the Chancellor managed to win during the first ballot. He won in the second round.
Traditionally, the newly elected German chancellors try to visit their big neighbors in the West and to the east the first day of power to underline European unity.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, said this week that Merz and Macron wanted their meeting to be re-infidel to what he described as “the French-allemain engine”.
The French minister said that he expects the relationship between Paris and Berlin to be simpler under Merz than under his predecessor, Olaf Scholz.
In particular, France is looking for German support for an increase in EU defense spending in the face of the threat perceived for European security by Russia and the concerns that Trump turns away from his transatlantic transatlantic relationship after the Second World War with Europe to concentrate resources on the fight against China.
Merz is expected to organize press conferences Wednesday with Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Macron Prime Minister and the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, organized the heights of European leaders separately to discuss Ukraine and European Security following the apparent Trump measures to remove the continent on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.
Stops in Paris and Warsaw take place on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Macron's meeting with his third German Chancellor as president of France will be particularly responsible for symbolism for the two countries which were bitter enemies during the First World War and II.
The first war ended with an armistice agreement signed in a railway car north of Paris.
ADVERTISEMENTThe Nazi chief Adolf Hitler then used the same railroad car to accept the capitulation of France in 1940, after his defenses died at the German invasion.
