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What did this week's Franco-German treaty achieve?

01.24.2019 - By Financial TimesPlay

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Germany and France signed a new treaty in the border town of Aachen on Tuesday that commits them to deeper co-operation on foreign and defence policy and closer economic integration. But critics say the treaty lacked depth and that President Emmanuel Macron had pushed for much more ambitious goals. Ben Hall discusses what the treaty actually achieved with Victor Mallet in Paris and Tobias Buck in Berlin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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