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France's President Emmanuel Macron (C) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) listen to explanations from Bruno Fichefeux (R), head of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme at Airbus Defence and Space during a joint cabinet meeting presenting Franco-German industrial projects, as part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Elysee Treaty, to seal reconciliation between France and West Germany, 18 years after the Second World War at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on January 22, 2023. - The date of the reunion is highly symbolic: sixty years to the day after Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty, which "marked the end of decades, if not centuries, of fierce rivalries and bloody wars", write the two leaders in an op-ed published by the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the French Journal du dimanche. (Photo by BENOIT TESSIER / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BENOIT TESSIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)