Germany and France must bury their differences and pursue a constructive partner...
BERLIN - Germany and France must bury their differences and pursue a constructive partnership with concrete ideas, an ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a public spat between the two European Union heavyweights over NATO.
Relations between the neighbors, traditionally the axis of the 28-member bloc, have become particularly tricky since French President Emmanuel Macron came to power as his ambitious plans for reform have often hit the buffers with cautious Merkel. Macron irked some allies, including Germany, this month by saying the NATO defense alliance was experiencing brain death and casting doubt on its collective guarantee, whereby an attack on one member is an attack on all in NATO.
Norbert Roettgen, a member of Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats and head of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, told Germany’s Bild daily that he understood the chancellor.
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