Scholz and Macron have introduced this measure on the inter-ministerial summit this Sunday Currently, the prepare journey between the 2 capitals is eight hours The introduction of the primary widespread binational ticket for younger folks this summer time has additionally been introduced
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, have guess on the summit held this Sunday in Paris to advertise the connection of Berlin and Paris by a high-speed prepare line that gives a extra ecological transport between the 2 capitals.
The two international locations “help a high-speed rail line linking Paris and Berlin, in addition to the evening prepare hyperlink scheduled for 2024,” they harassed within the joint assertion printed after the summit.
This challenge “illustrates our need to advance the decarbonization of our economies and our societies, in addition to our cross-border hyperlinks.” “We additionally help the introduction of the primary widespread binational ticket for younger folks, which is scheduled for the summer time of 2023,” they’ve indicated.
Currently the prepare journey between Paris and Berlin takes no less than eight hours, though Paris and Frankfurt have already got a high-speed prepare connection.
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Scholz and Macron have reiterated their condemnation of “Russia’s battle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine” and have assured that they are going to proceed to “unwaveringly” help Ukraine “in all doable fields, together with political, army, financial, monetary, humanitarian, social and cultural”. “We will proceed to help Ukraine and we can be by its aspect for so long as it takes,” they harassed.
We welcome the current developments within the Future Air Combat System (FAS) and reaffirm our need to maneuver ahead in the identical spirit with regard to the Main Ground Combat System (SCTP).
Also in protection issues, the 2 presidents have reiterated their “full” dedication to the settlement signed between France, Germany and Spain on protection export controls, “a key factor of our cooperation within the subject of armaments.”
They have additionally valued the work of the initiatives for the design and manufacture of a brand new mannequin of fight plane and a brand new mannequin of fight tank, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS, for its acronym in English) and the European Main Battle Tank (MGCS).