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France and Germany plan €500bn recovery fund
President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the unprecedented package after talks by video conference.
'Merkel speaks to adults...Macron talks as if we're children'

In an interview with Mediapart, history lecturer Johann Chapoutot, an expert on contemporary Germany and the history of the Nazis, uses the example of Germany to highlight France's failings in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He says that while the German chancellor Angela Merkel appeals to people's reason, in France “they lie to us”. Interview by Ludovic Lamant.
France joins Germany, UK to trigger dispute mechanism over Iran deal
France, Germany and the UK have set in train a dispute mechanism allowed in a 2015 deal over Iran's nuclear programme, following Tehran's decision to remove limits to its production of enriched uranium which can be used in the making of nuclear weapons.
French football authorities fail to get onside to help young migrants integrate

In the Paris region, western France and the French Alps, local initiatives are springing up to help young migrants, many of them unaccompanied minors, to get involved in football to help them integrate and find their feet in their new country. These projects are similar to a much-larger initiative that began in Germany in 2015 when that country took in nearly one million refugees. But as Mickaël Correia reports, the sport's ruling body in France - the French Football Federation - is doing nothing to help the process.
Poland's past colonial dreams shed light on East and Central European regimes of today
An exhibition in Paris reveals Poland's now forgotten colonial ambitions in the 1930s. In doing so, it makes a link between past Polish attitudes to colonies and other peoples and the racist reflexes of some governments in Central and Eastern Europe today. Ludovic Lamant reports.
EU Commission: France and Germany differ on Brussels' top job
Angela Merkel wants centre-right candidate Manfred Weber as next EU Commission president but Emmanuel Macron favours other candidates.
French more pessimistic than Germans about future, survey shows
Study also shows French are significantly more critical than Germans of government and public services, and distrustful of EU and globalisation.
Paris, Berlin add pressure on Warsaw over Polish judiciary reforms
At a meeting of European Union (EU) ministers on Tuesday, France and Germany said they were concerned over reforms of the Polish judicial system, which are regarded as politically intimidating for the country's courts and a threat to their independence, voicing their support for EU Commission infringement procedures which could in theory result in Poland losing its EU voting rights.
France and Germany set up parliamentary assembly
The 100-member Franco-German assembly, which implements the new Aachen treaty, met for its first biannual summit in Paris.
Macron, Merkel seal Franco-German 'friendship pact'
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met in the border town of Aachen on Tuesday to sign a pact that brings greater cooperation between their two countries, notably in economic and security issues, and including the aim of creating a 'German-French economic area with common rules' and a 'common military culture' that Merkel said could 'contribute to the creation of a European army'.
Macron tells German parliament Europe must block global chaos
In a speech to Germany's parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe must not become 'a plaything of great powers' and that 'in this global order [...] our true strength lies in unity'.
Paris and Berlin call for shake-up of EU development banks
They seek 'clearer delineation of mandates' between European Investment Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Britain appeals to France, Germany to help avoid 'no deal' Brexit
British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, who visited Paris on Tuesday, has called on France and Germany to put pressure on European Union negotiators in Brexit talks to respond more positively to the UK's propositions for a deal and to avoid what he has said is otherwise 'the real chance' of his country leaving the EU next year without one.
France to lead joint fighter jet program with Germany
New combat jet intended to replace French Rafales made by Dassault Aviation and German Eurofighters from 2040.