Leaders of France Germany and Poland Set to Meet in Berlin: Key Summit Agenda Revealed

Leaders of France Germany emmanuel macron will travel to Berlin on Friday to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an effort to reduce tensions over Ukraine that have spilled out into the open in recent weeks, high-level German and French officials have told POLITICO.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will join the French and German leaders later in the day, according to a German official. It will be the first meeting of the “Weimar Triangle,” a dialogue format between the three countries, since Tusk became prime minister of Poland again in December.
The leaders are hosting the meeting as a demonstration of unity after a tense period in which Franco-German frictions over Ukraine descended into an open feud.
In late February, Macron said that he would do “whatever it takes” to ensure that Russia could not win the war, refusing to rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine. Scholz, by contrast, was more cautious, ruling out the deployment of ground forces from European states.

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Leaders of France Germany europe clearly faces a moment when it will be necessary not to be cowards,” Macron responded days later in a public address in Prague, though he did not focus specifically on Scholz. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded, saying that “these are indeed words, something which does not really help solve the issues we have when it comes to helping Ukraine” . German officials feel that even though Macron talks like a tough guy, he has not followed through nearly as much as they have with military aid to Ukraine.
The Kiel Institute in Germany, which compiles national contributions to Ukraine’s war effort, ranks Leaders of Leaders of France Germany as a clear laggard. Between €640 million in military aid is compared to Germany’s €17.7 billion in provided or promised . The French contest those figures, and counter that they give the weapons that really matter. “Leaders of France Germany  has opted for operational efficiency in its military aid to Ukraine: promise what you can deliver, deliver what you can promise,” Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu recently said in a post on the X.
Macron on Friday postponed a long-planned visit to Ukraine amid tensions with allies over his increasingly hawkish rhetoric. On Sunday the Elysée Palace announced that this visit would be held in “a few weeks”.
The diplomat told POLITICO that the decision to make the delay was due to give talks with allies a chance to “bear fruit and concrete results” for Ukraine.
Macron is scheduled to land at the chancellery in Berlin around noon local time to participate in his bilateral talk with Scholz. Macron and Scholz are slated to have a trilateral comprised also by Tusk.
The talks in the Weimar format have been presented by leaders as part of efforts to reinforce European security, though there is still an open question if the added participation of Tusk actually assists in smoothing over the long-running friction between Scholz and Macron.
An official in Tusk’s government said, “Macron was always prone to use tougher words, so it only confirms the growing understanding in Europe.” On the 18th, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said that the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine is “not unthinkable.” A senior German official said that there would be no concrete decisions or announcements from the talks on Friday but “the important thing is the signal. The leaders want to send a new signal of unity.”