Merz is laying the groundwork for a grand bargain with Macron
What did Merz and Macron talk about?
The trip was expected to include discussions on the recent shift in US policy on the war in Ukraine, as well as European security issues.
Merz posted a photo of himself and Macron on social media late on Wednesday, thanking the French president for his "friendship" and "trust in German-French relations."
"Together our countries can achieve great things for Europe," Merz wrote on Instagram.
https://www.dw.com/en/merz-makes-surprise-trip-to-paris-for-talks-with-macron/a-71763932
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, French President Francois Mitterrand reassured a cautious US that Paris’s ambitions for a more self-reliant European defense would take eons to succeed:
The UK wasn’t keen, the Irish were neutral and the Germans after reunification were geographically “so big they no longer know what they’re supposed to be doing.”
Whether through jointly issued bonds or a less hawkish attitude to budget deficits, Merz’s coalition could sow the seeds of a new grand bargain combining German financial firepower with French defense ambitions,
according to the Jacques Delors Institute’s Yann Wernert.
Lionel Laurent Bloomberg 26 februari 2025
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-26/even-germany-is-gaullist-now-well-done-trump
The US is now the enemy of the west
Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world
Martin Wolf Financial Times 25 February 2025
The US is now the enemy of the west
Delors, together with former French President François Mitterrand and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, was one of the driving forces behind the European Union, and under his leadership as president of the European Commission, treaties were signed that would be impossible to forge agreement on today.
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2011/06/der-spiegel-how-european-elites-lost.html
Pascal Lamy, WTO-chefen som på nittiotalet var EU-kommissionens ordförande Jacques Delors högra hand.
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2020/05/this-really-would-be-crossing-rubicon.html
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The US is now the enemy of the west
Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world
Martin Wolf Financial Times 25 February 2025
https://www.ft.com/content/b46e2e24-ca71-4269-a7ca-3344e6215ae3
State of The Union
Vad är det som har en flagga, en nationaldag, en nationalsång, en militärstyrka, ett parlament och en högsta domstol.
En stat, naturligtvis. Vad är det mer en stat har? Jo, en valuta.
Det är därför europas ledande politiker har infört euron.
För att vara med om att rita om Europas karta, skapa ett nytt imperium, i Habsburgs efterföljd, som kan utmana USA, som vänstern hatar och högern föraktar.
Rolf Englund Internet 20/1 2003
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2009/09/state-of-union-irish-people-had-vote-on.html
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