“They never got along well, but now it’s particularly bad,” said a senior EU official of Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel. That's a problem for the bloc.
BRUSSELS—A growing rift between Paris and Berlin threatens the Franco-German engine that has powered many of Europe’s biggest projects.
French President Emmanuel Macron advocates bold plans centered on positioning the European Union as a force between the U.S. and China. But his disruptive style and grand ambitions have irked Germany, the biggest contributor to EU funding, and in particular its leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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