Germany and France met in Paris to go over the current events overtaking both nations culminating in the mutual issues needing resolution. The German cabinet and 300 legislators at Sorbonne University are mulling everything concerning them.
Germany, France Meets
History as opposing forces during the Second World War comes to the fore in the 60th year of the treaty, and it highlights the European Union too.
Heads of state Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz are scheduled to go over two rounds of talks at the Elysée Palace in Paris. Their agenda includes crucial issues like energy, economics, and the defense policies that affect them, Euro News reported.
After President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act became top of the agenda as it needed a direct response as the US offered subsidies and other alternative energy businesses to curb its effects on the bloc. Compared to other EU members, Berlin and France will not sit down to what it calls an undercut by Washington. Paris urges the European bloc to loosen their rules to hasten how fast state subsidies are allocated and make investment support with EU sovereign fund for more green industries.
The bloc members will consider military aid for Ukraine, as stated by Paris and Berlin officials but kept undisclosed. Either has given support to Kyiv, except for better tanks that it is now asking for and weapons as Moscow directs its forces in the special operation to ram over all forces in renewed ferocity.
The western strategy to supply the arms is failing against a fierce VKS, and the Russian army is set on trampling Zelensky and the AFU. According to German officials, the allies want the Leopard 2 MBTs to be given to Ukrainians, which might be a useless gesture.
More rumples come on how to deal with an energy crunch with inflation rising and wrecking economies, and the subject of military investment in the coming days, per VOA News.
It was the first face-to-face joint government meeting from 2019, which was supposed to be for October but got kicked back. The Elysée Treaty was signed 60 years ago by World War Two leader Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on January 22, 1963.
Paris, Berlin Talks Concerning European Defense
The treaty is a landmark event in Europe that finally ended hostile relations between the wartime adversaries opening up Europe for changes. One of the ratcheting pressures that caused the Ukraine conflict is the rift between the two nations with vested interests in the strategic policy of the European bloc.
Mentioned by Strategic Europe's editor-in-chief Judy Dempsey explained what differed between the two leading EU nations in defense. She said that Paris wants European self-sufficiency in defending itself and conducting its internal security, meaning no more US in these matters, according to Yahoo.
But Berlin wants other countries like the US and Israel still dipping in European defense, like the European Sky Shield that Paris is opposed to.
Germany with France is striving to respond to mutual issues that will affect them, but external forces are adding to these concerns.
