2023-07-01 14:54:00
The president was to join Germany this Sunday, July 2. He finally canceled his visit due to the difficult context for four days.
By HR with AFP President Macron’s visit to Germany postponed. © BENOIT TESSIER / POOL / AFP Published on 07/01/2023 at 2:54 p.m.
Emmanuel Macron will not go to Germany immediately. The French president has chosen to postpone his state visit across the Rhine, scheduled for July 2 to 4, announced this Saturday July 1, in a press release, the German presidency. This decision follows four days of riots in France.
“French President Macron spoke on the phone today with German President Steinmeier and updated him on the situation in his country. President Macron has requested the postponement of his planned state visit to Germany,” the German presidency said in its statement, which the French presidency confirmed to AFP.
No date set at the moment
“The German president regrets the cancellation and understands it perfectly because of the situation” in France, is it specified in the press release of the German presidency. Frank-Walter Steinmeier “is following the situation in France with great attention. He hopes that the violence in the streets will stop soon and that social peace can be restored again,” it added. READ ALSORiots in the suburbs: Borloo or the revenge of the “white male”
According to the entourage of the French president, no new date has yet been set. In Paris, a source insists that French and German officials have many opportunities to meet, and that a state visit is above all a way of celebrating Franco-German friendship, more than a meeting. strictly political, the moment was not the most propitious. At the end of last March, it was the state visit of King Charles III to France which had to be canceled, due to the social crisis linked to the pension reform.
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