Discord is currently shaping relations between Berlin and Paris. In the German-French parliamentary assembly, the MPs cooperate smoothly. However, they exclude security policy.

ZAt least when it comes to birthday cake, the German-French symbiosis was successful. The fifth anniversary of the parliamentary agreement between the Bundestag and the National Assembly was celebrated in Paris with a cross between Black Forest cake and the Paris-Brest cream puff specialty. Previously, there was harder food in the National Assembly for the participants in the anniversary colloquium, to which 27 members of the Bundestag also traveled from Berlin. The interim assessment after five years of the Aachen Treaty and cooperation in the German-French Parliamentary Assembly was nuanced.

The chamber does not convey a bad image, as the executive branch has recently presented through mutual taunts in public. Voting processes now work silently. The French co-chair Brigitte Klinkert (Renaissance) began by emphasizing the uniqueness of the pioneering work of the past few years. No other parliament in the EU is as closely interlinked as the Bundestag and the National Assembly. The chamber succeeded in providing important food for thought.