{"id":130174,"date":"2024-05-06T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/can-franco-german-relations-be-rekindled-over-the-ukraine-war\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:35:39","slug":"can-franco-german-relations-be-rekindled-over-the-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/can-franco-german-relations-be-rekindled-over-the-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Franco-German relations be rekindled over the Ukraine war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130174\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nParis and Berlin are at loggerheads over military aid to Ukraine. But can the two European powerhouses unify behind Kyiv? At a conference on Ukraine in Paris at the end of February 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron did not rule out putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. The announcement didn&#8217;t go down well across the Rhine. A few hours later, Germany&#8217;s Olaf Scholz answered \u201cEurope and NATO will not send any soldiers to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron&#8217;s statement was &#8220;a red line for Germany\u201d, which fears being passed off as \u201cwarmonger\u201d in the eyes of Vladimir Putin, according to Dr Carolyn Moser, director of a research group at Heidelberg&#8217;s Max Planck Institute of International Law and holder of the Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po. During the same conference, the French leader did not miss the opportunity to recall that \u201cmany, around this table, were only considering sending sleeping bags and helmets\u201d to Ukraine. It was a jibe at Berlin, which announced at the end of January 2022 it would send 5,000 helmets to Kyiv &#8211; but not arms. One month later Russian tanks rolled across the border. The situation has changed a lot since then.<\/p>\n<p>After the United States, Germany is now the second largest contributor of aid to Ukraine. According to the Kiel Institute, Germany has committed to providing \u20ac17 billion in aid for Kyiv when France has only promised \u20ac1.8bn. &#8220;France was less hesitant to deliver heavy weapons, but it made it much less public. And until now, it hesitates to say exactly what it delivered and to what extent. It justifies it by the fact that it could then reveal defence secrets,&#8221; said expert Moser.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of communication is also a source of tension between Berlin and Paris. Faced with Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Scholz announced at the end of February 2022 an envelope of \u20ac100bn to modernise the German army. France regrets not having been informed beforehand. Another thorn in the side of the Franco-German relationship is the European Sky Shield Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated by Germany, the project, which includes 21 NATO countries but does not include France, consists of German (IRIS-T), American (PATRIOT) and Israeli (Arrow-3) systems. These dissonances already existed before Moscow&#8217;s assault on Ukraine. In 2017, Macron made a speech at the Sorbonne, calling for an overhaul of European defence &#8211; it fell on deaf ears across the Rhine. The French and German visions of European defence differ fundamentally on one point: the role of NATO. &#8220;While France aspires to a certain autonomy, Germany prefers a transatlantic approach,&#8221; explains Moser.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/05\/05\/can-franco-german-relations-be-rekindled-over-the-ukraine-war\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/05\/05\/can-franco-german-relations-be-rekindled-over-the-ukraine-war\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/can-franco-german-relations-be-rekindled-over-the-ukraine-war\/\">Can Franco-German relations be rekindled over the Ukraine war?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,561,1038,559],"class_list":["post-130174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}