The sight of French President Emmanuel Macron and his cabinet drinking beers on a boat with their German counterparts in Hamburg this week will project an image of the enduring Franco-German friendship.
But the informal team-building exercise, a German government tradition called "Klausur", belies a power struggle between the European Union's two biggest powers and its impact on a raft of EU projects.
The rising tension between the capitals reveals not just a spat on technical matters but a break in trust between two governments fighting for major economic interests and different visions of the EU's future. "The starting point for all these disputes is Germany's anti-nuclear policy, which extends beyond its borders," said Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, head of Paris-based IFRI think-tank's energy centre.
Germany and some other EU members are pushing for stricter rules on state-backed support of power prices. Berlin officials fear Paris will offer state-backed fixed-price contracts for nuclear power to its national energy champion EDF and spend the revenue this raises on supporting French industries. Macron's concept of "strategic autonomy", which calls for Europe not to rely on outside powers in sectors which could give them political leverage, is rubbing against Germany's historical reliance on the American military umbrella.
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