Le Figaro referred to the recent revival of the Weimar Triangle, a trilateral format of cooperation between France, Germany, and Poland. Launched in 1991, the format went into hibernation in recent years, partly due to Poland’s then government of the Law and Justice (PiS), which displayed open animosity toward Germany and had lukewarm relations with France.
But with the new Polish government, much more pro-EU in its orientation than their predecessors, taking office last December,
the Triangle seems to have come back to life.
The newspaper referenced the words of General Charles de Gaulle in 1959 when he was president of France and sought an agreement with the Soviet Union.
The French daily wrote that De Gaulle’s vision of a “
Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals will not be created; instead,
Europe is being created from the Atlantic to the Vistula, organized around the Paris-Berlin-Warsaw axis.”
Russia has changed from being a “strategic partner” of France and Germany into a “direct and lasting threat to European security,” said the French daily.
For two decades, “the French and Germans invested massively in Russia, which became their main energy supplier.”
According to Le Figaro, “
European diplomacy undoubtedly made mistakes in relations with Putin,” although it is difficult to blame French President Emmanuel Macron, who attempted everything to “return Russia to the European family.”
Le Figaro wrote that if Donald Trump were to win the November U.S. presidential elections and America loses interest in European affairs, the role of the Paris-Berlin-Warsaw axis would become even more important, and added that last Friday’s meeting of the Weimar Triangle leaders in Berlin had “brought a strategic breakthrough.”
