12/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - IFRI, the French International Relations Institute, is organising the annual colloquium of CERFA, the Comité d'études des relations franco-allemandes (Committee on Studies in Franco-German Relations) in Paris on 30 January on the topic of Towards a European Public Zone? French and German views of the first 100 days of the Merkel government ( Vers un espace public européen? Regards croisés franco-allemands sur les 100 premiers jours du gouvernement Merkel). German Ambassador in Paris Klaus Neubert and IFRI Director General Thierry de Montbrial will open proceedings, which will concentrate on the challenges for the wide coalition in Berlin (with Karsten Voigt, responsible for Germano-American relations at the German Foreign Ministry and others) and France and Germany's role in the EU25, will be attended by the French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and the German deputy Minister for Franco-German cooperation Günther Gloser.