Germany, first cracks in foreign policy: who decides, Scholz or Baerbock?

“European sovereignty”: Olaf Scholz knew that by absorbing this typical Macronian instance into the “traffic light” coalition contract that will be the basis of his government action, he would have flattered the French president. And on his first official visit to Paris, the new Social Democratic Chancellor immediately relaunched the Normadia format, the Franco-German-Ukrainian-Russian quartet that had played a leading role in the negotiations on Minsk after the first Russian invasion of Ukraine.