France and Germany renew strained alliance

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met in Paris on Sunday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty cementing post-war relations.

Signed by French President and wartime anti-Nazi resistance leader, Charles de Gaulle, and West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on January 22, 1963, the landmark treaty sealed a bond between the longtime enemies that underpins today’s European Union. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised the Franco-German friendship and the pair are set to hold talks which will focus on energy and economic policy and then on defence.