Instead of the originally planned Council of Ministers, there was a working lunch in a small group. The disagreements between the two largest countries in the EU had grown in recent weeks, and apparently, the two heads of state, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron, needed to talk: Instead of the planned 20 minutes, Scholz and Macron consulted privately for three hours. They remained silent about what exactly they talked about, and there was no joint press conference, as Tanja Kuchenbecker reports from Paris.