French President Emmanuel Macron will receive Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, for a working dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday evening, the French presidency said.
Although the details of the talks were not revealed, the meeting highlights the significance of Franco-German relations as Merz is set to assume office. His right-wing party won Sunday’s parliamentary elections, and he will be forming a coalition with the third-placed Social Democrats.
Macron, with his meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, previously informed European Union leaders of the outcome of the talks. As Germany’s future leader, Merz will have a crucial role to play in influencing EU foreign policy and relations, and his conversation with Macron is thus a high point of his European diplomacy.
