Renewing Their Vows: France and Germany Sign ‘Treaty of Aachen’

• Renewing Their Vows: France and Germany Sign ‘Treaty of Aachen’
  by Catherine Nicholson, https://www.france24.com/en/
  Strasbourg is a particularly apt place for discussing this week’s topic, as it lies on the Franco-German border, in a region that’s changed hands between France and Germany multiple times in its history – most recently annexation by Nazi Germany, then liberation after WWII. Earlier this week, President Macron and Chancellor Merkel signed off on a new version of the so-called Élysée Treaty, which has been the basis for 56 years of post-war co-operation. We ask what this new document is all about.

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