Berlin and Paris are taking steps towards rapprochement and coordination, and a series of important meetings are planned this week as a springboard.

German Foreign Minister Analena Bourbok will be in Paris today, and next Friday the Prime Minister of France Elizabeth Born he is going to meet the chancellor of germany Olaf Soltz in Berlin.

Just late last week, Berlin and Paris reached an agreement that will allow them to move on to the next stage in the development of a grandiose future Franco-German-Spanish fighter system. Combat aviation system of the future (FCAS).

The issue of cooperation on joint defense projects is expected to be raised during the meeting between Elisabeth Born and Olaf Soltz in Berlin this Friday.

German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock will hold bilateral talks with her French counterpart today. Ekaterina Columnbut he has also been invited to the Élysée, where he is scheduled to have a one-on-one meeting with the President. Emmanuel Macron.

In a way, as Politico notes in its analysis, Macron has been impressed by Burbock’s recent enthusiastic remarks about Franco-German cooperation, which he himself wants to promote.

According to another … more cynical point of view, Macron will try, through today’s meeting with the German Foreign Minister, to “upgrade” such a minister as A. Berbock from the Green Party, which often contradicts its statements to Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf. Solts.

It is also reported that Paris and Berlin are preparing a joint Franco-German summit with a possible date January 22the date is far from accidental, as it coincides with the completion of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the historic Élysée Treaty 1963, which laid the foundations for the Franco-German partnership, and/or a joint meeting of the parliaments of France and Germany, also in January.

According to Politico