Ahead of the European conference on defence on 7 June, Germany and France confirmed their resolve on Thursday 1 June to progress on concrete projects as part of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PSC), as well as to progress towards joint missions in the Sahel.
It was France's armed forces minister, Sylvie Goulard, who stated this and who repeated it at the end of a meeting in Berlin with her German counterpart Ursula von der Leyen. "The bilateral work between France and Germany must...