The countdown for Chancellor Angela Merkel speeds up. Yesterday he co-directed with President Emmanuel Macron what was his last Franco-German council of ministers, a forum created in 2017 to prop up the Paris-Berlin axis and agree on the reform of the European Union after Brexit.

The road map that Macron hoped to agree with who has been his political reference is still in an embryonic state due to its paralyzing prudence. It remains to be seen if the president takes advantage of the chancellor's exit