The new Franco-German treaty, which will be signed on 22 January in Aachen by Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron, will be "an important symbol in an objectively difficult context", according to a close associate of the French President.
Its "common thread" will be the "convergence of our economies and societies" in the service of Europe, the French assert. In practice, between economic integration and cross-border cooperation, France and Germany want to become the...