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The 50th anniversary of the signing of the Elysée Treaty was celebrated in an atmosphere worthy of a 1980s romantic comedy, jokes the compact edition of Die Welt. On January 22, François Hollande and Angela Merkel put paid to suspicions that Franco-German friendship was in crisis.
The President and the Chancellor are on intimate terms, and the German leader has once again voiced her support for French intervention in Mali. However, the daily underlines, that the “unique selling point” of the Franco-German axis “appears increasingly weak”.
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