It is true that where Emmanuel Macron sets a broad, ambitious vision for a 'European renaissance', Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (AKK)'s reply was more typically German: no to "European centralism" and no support to strengthen the EU's social dimension.
Both leaders converge, however, on their emphasis on a classical inter-governmental approach and on conservative issues like in...
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Olaf Boehnke is the senior advisor in Berlin to the Rasmussen Global political consultancy.