(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, MAY 27 - France's President Emmanuel
Macron on Monday visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, ahead
of a trip to eastern Germany where he is expected to warn
against the rise of the far right ahead of EU elections. Macron,
who is undertaking the first state visit by a French president
to Germany in a quarter of a century, made a plea for the
defence of democracy against nationalist forces as he arrived on
Sunday. He is expected to bring the same message to the eastern
city of Dresden in Saxony state, a stronghold of the far-right
AfD party. Macron's trip comes two weeks ahead of European Union
elections in which polls are indicating a major potential
embarrassment for the French leader, with his centrist coalition
trailing behind the far right. It could even struggle to reach a
third-place finish. In Germany too, all three parties in
Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition are polling behind the
far-right AfD in surveys, despite a series of scandals
embroiling the anti-immigration party. On Monday morning, Macron
and his wife Brigitte, along with the German presidential
couple, paid a visit to the memorial in central Berlin that
commemorates the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.
(ANSA-AFP).
Macron to bring warning against far-right to eastern Germany
First state visit by French president in a quarter of a century