with franco german never lation despite the compromise or the north stream pipeline question marks remain over how well you re of stein amodio are faring right now in a surprise row french president on my car has pulled out of a meeting with uncle america at the forthcoming munich security conference we asked the organizer welcome to share what he made of the notion even if president michel isn t going to speak himself in munich we will have plenty of other senior representatives of the french government in munich to explain french positions. there will be a huge american delegation and congressional delegation they will be half a dozen german ministers said red cetera so i think the purpose which i which is important to me the purpose to demonstrate in munich that the european union is alive and kicking that purpose can still be maintained not.
upcoming munich security conference both on dismissed signs of a rift between france and germany and north stream two he said there was no link between that and a french president in london luttrell s cancellation of a joint appearance the german shots on the america of the c.s. conference was going to sing that to a detail be that the european project is still strong he also touched upon some of the other issues expected to come up at next week s meeting even if president michel isn t going to speak himself in munich we will have plenty of other senior representatives of the french government in munich to explain french positions. there will be a huge american delegation congressional delegation there will be a half a dozen german ministers etc etc so i think the purpose which i which is important to me the purpose to demonstrate in munich that the european union is alive and
and the reasons that were given to us had to do with the need of the president of france to entertain his national dialogue and to worry about domestic issues rather than go abroad for this particular conference so for us this is unfortunate but. not a big tragedy but but i mean what do you think it says though about the state of affairs here in europe because i mean you had previously welcome to this as a way of showing that europe is not falling apart on you highlighted the domestic issues in both countries were you wrong. well no i mean look fried s even if president michel isn t going to speak himself in munich we will have plenty of other senior representatives of the french government in munich to explain french positions. there will be