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Merz, Macron Vow Quick Work on EU Priorities Ahead of Potential Le Pen Presidency

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But both leaders framed their urgency as a matter of economic necessity, not a way to put guardrails around a future far-right French leader.

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The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised, on Friday, that "it will stretch out the hand of any leader who will be elected president of France in the elections of 2027, in the context in which the polls indicate a possible victory of the extreme right candidate, Marine Le Pen, reports AFP and you, according to Agerpres.

·Bucharest, Romania
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Within a year of the election, Emmanuel Macron called for caution, recalling that no poll had predicted his victory in the 2017 presidential election.

Center

"Beware, however, of the polls. If I may say so, I know a lot of people who were elected in July 2016. It was not necessarily the same people that we found in May 2017", he ironed out at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Brühl, near Cologne (west of Germany), referring to his own election. For his part, the German Chancellor promised to "tend his hand" to any leader who will be elected in France. "Germany will alw…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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On the occasion of a press conference with Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday 17 July, the President invoked the memory of his victory in 2017 to explain that the triumph of the far right, given by the polls, was not inevitable.

·Paris, France
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The French President spoke at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who, for his part, promised to "tender his hand" to any leader who will be elected in France.

·Paris, France
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