ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned in opposition to the risks of nationalism Monday, as he visited a World Conflict II bloodbath website in France a day after European elections noticed advances for the far proper.It’s “fittingly on the day after the European elections that I say: allow us to always remember the injury carried out in Europe by nationalism and hate.Allow us to always remember the miracle of reconciliation the European Union has labored,” Steinmeier mentioned at a commemoration ceremony for the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, the place Nazi SS troopers massacred civilians in 1944.Among the many German head of state’s viewers was President Emmanuel Macron, who known as new nationwide elections to France’s parliament Sunday, after his social gathering’s disastrous displaying within the European vote.Whereas Macron hopes to interrupt the impasse of a hung parliament that has dogged his second time period since 2022, the far-right Nationwide Rally (RN) appears to be like set to make vital features from its present 88 lawmakers.”It’s on this reminiscence, within the ashes of Oradour, that we now have to make sure the power of this reconciliation is reborn,” Macron mentioned, calling post-war Franco-German ties “the lifeblood of our European challenge”.
