French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a "friendly" and "constructive" conversation over lunch Wednesday, Paris and Berlin said, after the relationship suffered some bruising in recent weeks over a number of issues including energy and defence.
The two leaders were "of one mind on the major directions" of policy, a German diplomatic source told French news agency AFP after the meeting, while a source in the French presidency called it "very constructive".
