Merkel and Macron: “Now the rejections start again”

PARIS and BERLIN. The European Union “has not yet achieved the goal” of a solution on migrants. On the eve of the first post-pandemic dinner with a foreign head of state, Angela Merkel chooses the understatement to describe the great unfinished business of the last decade. But alongside Emmanuel Macron, who has returned to ask that “all countries lend a form of solidarity” and confirms that the goal of a “more effective” management of migratory flows is once again a hot topic, Merkel does not unbutton too much on a topic that Mario Draghi wants to bring to the European summit next week and face to face with the Chancellor in Berlin next Monday.