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Schloss Elmau — After a clash between sausages and submarines last year, Emmanuel Macron of France and Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom all smiled at the G7 summit on Sunday, and the dispute over Brexit did not even occur in bilateral talks focused primarily on Ukraine. rice field.
Two major European military leaders meet, reflecting what French presidential officials have said is a deliberate attempt to "activate and warm relations." We exchanged delights cheerfully at the beginning of.
The two decided to focus on the consequences of the war in Ukraine and there, rather than the issues that divided them in the past.
"The word Brexit was not mentioned, nor was the Northern Ireland Protocol mentioned," officials said, threatening Johnson to tear between the EU and British-controlled states. Mentioned terms that Britain negotiated about trade between. Up.
At the last G7 summit on the western coast of England a year ago, Johnson called for new rules for importing ham into Northern Ireland, a quarrel called the "Sausage War." .. In September, Paris was furious in London when it signed a trilateral agreement with the United States to supply Australia with submarines, and Canberra replaced plans to buy French submarines instead.
Johnson's office said he and Macron agreed to provide more support to Ukraine.
"They agreed that this was a crucial moment in the process of conflict and that there was an opportunity to change the course of the war," a Downing Street spokesman said in a statement.
Prior to the meeting with Macron, Johnson was asked if France and Germany were doing enough to help Ukraine. Johnson was praised by Kieu for providing support that was considered more powerful than other European leaders, and focused his answers on Germany without mentioning France.
A second French presidential bureaucrat said Macron raised the subject of the European Political Community, an idea raised by the president last month.
The purpose is to create a new structure that allows for closer cooperation with countries seeking EU accession and those seeking closer ties with the block, and the post-Brexit UK It suggests that it may be part of it.
Officials said Johnson had previously proposed such an initiative in 2016, which could facilitate cooperation on specific subjects with Europe without joining a union. He said he showed "a lot of enthusiasm" for this idea because he could. Officials said Johnson welcomed claiming that the idea belonged to him. (Report by John Irish, edited by Toby Chopra and Angelo Amante)
