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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech prior to the the signing of a new Germany-France friendship treaty at the historic Town Hall in Aachen, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. The new Treaty of Aachen is the succession of the 1963 Elysee Treaty signed by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the then French President Charles de Gaulle. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Italy’s Salvini lashes out at Macron as ‘terrible president’

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 1963 file photo, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, centre left, hugs France President Charles de Gaulle after signing the Elysee friendship treaty in the Elysee palace in Paris, France. The leaders of France and Germany are poised to sign the Aachen accord Tuesday Jan. 22, 2019, renewing their friendship and pledging greater cooperation, exactly 56-years after their predecessors inked the Elysee Treaty that set the tone for the two countries’ future relations. (AP Photo/File)

AP Explains: Why are France and Germany renewing their vows?

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Christen Press scores and US women down Spain 1-0

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French President Emmanuel Macron poses with Quebec Premier Francois Legault, left, after receiving a gift prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh Pool)

France’s Macron to promote foreign investment at Versailles

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AP FACT CHECK: Shared French-German UN seat? Not in treaty

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

This photo taken on Wednesday Jan. 16, 2019 shows the port de Boulogne-Sur-Mer, northern France. Border control officers patrolling the land, sea and air of northern France are combing beaches, dunes and the frigid, murky coastal waters in a bid to end a high-risk but growing tactic by a group of mostly Iranian migrants desperate to get to Britain: sneaking across the English Channel in rubber boats. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Night voyages across the Channel: Frigid water, flimsy boats

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron meets paratroopers of the 11th Brigade of the Paratroopers of the Infantry before delivering his new year address to military forces at Toulouse-Francazal air base, near Toulouse, southern France, Thursday, Jan.17 Jan. 2019. (Guillaume Horcajuelo, Pool via AP)

Macron: The French military will remain involved in Syria

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French court upholds prison sentence for Sarkozy former aide

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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2018 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron pauses before answering as he attends a media conference with Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Yellow vest protesters and political rivals say a sweeping &quot;letter to the French&quot; from President Emmanuel Macron doesn't go far enough to quell national anger at his policies. (Benoit Tessier/Pool Photo via AP, File)

France’s Macron launches ‘grand debate’ following protests

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

A protestor dressed as a robot demonstrates opposite the Houses of Parliament as Pro-European demonstrators protest in London, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to win support for her Brexit deal in Parliament. Lawmakers are due to vote on the agreement Tuesday, and all signs suggest they will reject it, adding uncertainty to Brexit less than three months before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

The Latest: Macron tells Britain “good luck” with Brexit

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim, right, shakes hands with visiting French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

France pledges 1B euros in aid to rebuild Iraq

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French far-right leader Marine le Pen delivers her speech during a campaign meeting in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Le Pen's French far right party National Rally has launched Sunday its campaign for the European Parliament elections, where nationalist, anti-immigration movements like hers are hoping to dominate. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French far-right leader wants EU election to ‘beat’ Macron

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

People's Assembly Against Austerity stage a rally in central London calling for a general election. Saturday Jan. 12, 2019. Hundreds of protesters inspired by France’s so-called ‘yellow vest’ movement are rallying in Britain, drawing attention to austerity programs that have hit the poor hard. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Hundreds inspired by yellow vest movement rally in London

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A police officer aims a flash ball gun during clashes with yellow vest protesters on the famed Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Authorities deployed 80,000 security forces nationwide for a ninth straight weekend of anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The Latest: French protesters demand more help from govt

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Firefighters tends to a wounded person near the site of a gas leak explosion in Paris, France, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. A powerful explosion and fire apparently caused by a gas leak at a Paris bakery Saturday injured several people, blasted out windows and overturned cars, police said. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The Latest: Paris street is devastated by gas blast; 3 dead

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FILE - In this Sunday, April 23, 2017 file photo, French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon addresses his supporters in Paris. A French judicial official on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 says the financial prosecutor’s office has asked that former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his wife be sent to trial on corruption charges. Fillon's 2017 presidential bid unraveled over allegations he paid his wife Penelope and two of their children more than 1 million euros ($1.1 million) over many years for jobs as parliamentary aides that involved no sustained work. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)

Corruption trial urged for former French PM Fillon and wife

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Protesters wearing yellow vests stand next to a fire in a makeshift camp on a roundabout near Senlis, north of Paris, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Yellow vest protesters continue their roundabout fight

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he poses for a photograph after the recording of his New Year's speech at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France. Macron is facing a mountain of challenges in 2019, starting with yellow vest protesters who are back on the streets to show their anger against high taxes and Macron's pro-business policies that they see as favouring the wealthy rather than the working class. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

France’s Macron faces tough challenges at home and in Europe

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Riot police officers take position at the Champs Elysees avenue during a yellow vest protest in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. Hundreds of protesters were trying to breathe new life into France's apparently waning yellow vest movement with marches in Paris and gatherings in other cities. Notre Dame cathedral in the background. Arc de Triumph in the background. (AP Photo//Michel Euler)

Former pro boxer in custody after assault on French police

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 3, 2016 file photo, French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, leads a mass for migrants in the Saint-Jean Cathedral, in Lyon, central France. The Roman Catholic Church faces another public reckoning when a French cardinal goes on trial Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 for his alleged failure to report a pedophile priest who confessed to preying on Boy Scouts and whose victims want to hold one of France’s highest church figures accountable. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

Cardinal on trial in France’s biggest church sex abuse trial

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY - Associated Press