President Macron had barely been inaugurated this week when he travelled to Berlin on a visit that was ultimately of the highest symbolic significance.
His visit bears an uncanny resemblance to another, also to Germany and it, too, in the month of May: on Monday 8 May 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman dispatched one of closest allies, a magistrate from Alsace, named Michlich, bearing what, in the hours that follow, would become the “Schuman Declaration”, along with a...