Paris and Berlin put to the test by Russian poison

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday January 22 at the Élysée Palace. BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS

ANALYSIS – The Franco-German tandem has been called into question since the start of the war in Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine is a slow poison which gnaws at Russian power from within, but which also spreads its venom in Europe, to the point of threatening the Franco-German couple. In less than a year, the Russian invasion has marginalized the founding Franco-German cement of the EU, the one which for several decades has given Europe most of its impetus, the one also without which it has always been impossible to ‘to lend.

The Franco-German tandem has been called into question since the start of the war by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which no longer accept its leadership. In question, the hesitations of Paris and Berlin to support Ukraine, as well as their determination to maintain a dialogue with Vladimir Putin. This division already existed before February 24. The countries of Eastern Europe, which suffered invasions and attacks from the great Russian or Soviet neighbour, had warned in vain of the threat that Vladimir Putin’s regime still posed to European security. Those…

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