Paris and Brussels: the first official visits of the new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Friday 10 December, confirm the message. His coalition government of the SPD’s Social Democrats, the Greens, and the FDP’s Liberals will be resolutely pro-European, building on the Franco-German partnership.
This meeting in Paris with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, two days after his official election, follows on from the actions of previous German chancellors. The governing agreement...