How Chancellor Olaf Scholz isolating Germany in Europe

Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Athens Actually, Élisabeth Borne was supposed to travel to Olaf Scholz at the end of September, but then the Chancellor tested positive for Corona. Last Friday, France’s Prime Minister made up for her visit to the Chancellery, and the new date fitted perfectly into the political calendar: the meeting concluded a week of intensive travel diplomacy, with which Paris and Berlin wanted to demonstrate new unity after a phase of much irritation in their relations .

There is a palpable will on both sides to make people forget the unfortunate impression of the cancellation of the Franco-German Council of Ministers in October and to act together in Europe in the energy crisis. “Friends stand by each other in need,” said Scholz alongside Borne. “Germany and France exemplify common European solidarity.”