08/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - In a speech delivered on 5 April in Berlin, Lionel Jospin took a stance in favour of "political renewal" in the Franco-German cooperation, mainly through the bias of "coordination and political piloting of issues" between Paris and Berlin, as well as the "search for new common projects and a shared conception of European priorities and of the Future of Europe". The French Prime Minister said that, if elected President of the Republic, he would call a German adviser to the Elysée (in the same way that Gerhard Schröder has appointed French national Brigitte Sauzay to the Federal Chancellery). The same day, Chanceller Schröder affirmed on the website of candidate Jospin that Germany and France have a considerable convergence of views regarding the matter of the future institutional relations between Council, Commission and Parliament. The spokesman for the CDU/CSU group at the Bundestag, Pflüger, considered Lionel Jospin's speech as "disappointing", as, he says, it reflects the "cooling of Franco-German relations over recent years".