BERLIN (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Friday to discuss support for Ukraine.
These discussions, announced by Donald Tusk and confirmed by a German government source, will constitute the first meeting of the “Weimar Triangle” – the platform for political cooperation between Germany, France and Poland created in 1991 – since Donald’s return Tusk in power.
“I spoke to the president about how we mobilize our partners in Europe,” declared the Polish Prime Minister during an interview with the TVP Info channel late Tuesday, after meeting the President of the United States. United, Joe Biden, in Washington. “A Weimar Triangle summit urgently called for Friday”.
According to a government source, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz will first meet against a backdrop of tensions between France and Germany, in particular on their respective positions on the conflict in Ukraine.
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They will then be joined by Donald Tusk.
Speaking before the Bundestag, Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday that France and Germany maintained very close relations.
“We work closely together, and the strength of our cooperation comes in particular from the fact that we do so even when the two countries disagree on individual issues,” he told parliamentarians.
(Reporting Andreas Rinke and John Irish, written by Miranda Murray; French version Kate Entringer and Blandine Hénault)
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