Macron's Trip To Switzerland Confirms 'Bilateral Warming'
Date
11/14/2023 4:14:34 AM
(MENAFN- Swissinfo)
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Emmanuel Macron en Suisse pour confirmer le ((réchauffement)) bilatéral (original)
Macron has waited six years to pay an official visit to Switzerland. Was this down to a lack of interest in the small neighbour? The previous French president to come on a state visit was François Hollande in 2015.“A visit every eight years is quite proper,” reckons François Nordmann, a former Swiss ambassador to France.
On Wednesday in Bern, on Thursday at the University of Lausanne and CERN in Geneva, Macron will have ample opportunity to speak freely with Interior Minister Alain Berset, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year. That would have been difficult two years ago, when French-Swiss relations were at an all-time low.
Switzerland's decision to break off negotiations on a framework treaty with the European Union and especially the preference shown by Bern for American F-35 fighter planes rather than the French Rafale all contributed to frosty relations between Bern and Paris.
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