Paris vs. Berlin: a continent divided over energy

Macron’s recent snubbing of Scholz is the latest episode of a deepening row between the EU’s ’two economic powerhouses’

Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron
Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron: an increasingly icy relationship
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Germany and France are the EU’s “two economic powerhouses”, said Hans von der Burchard and Clea Caulcutt on Politico (Brussels). Yet their respective leaders now have such an icy relationship, “they do not even dare be seen together in front of the press”.

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