French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, 1 September that the recent speech by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Charles University in Prague outlining Germany’s vision for the future of Europe (see EUROPE B13009A1) “is in line with the logic” of strengthening European sovereignty that he has been advocating since his speech at the Sorbonne in 2017.
In his view, unthinkable events such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have vindicated the advocates...