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Macron urges defence of democracy on state visit to Germany

French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier address a joint press conference after talks at Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin, Germany on May 26, 2024. [AFP]

Emmanuel Macron began Sunday the first state visit to Germany by a French president in a quarter-century, bringing a plea to defend democracy against nationalism at the coming European Parliament elections.

Macron made his first stop a democracy festival in Berlin, where he warned of a "form of fascination for authoritarianism which is growing" in the two major EU nations.

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