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France–Germany relations or the Franco-German relations [a] form a part of the wider politics of the European Union. The two countries have a long – and often contentious – relationship stretching back to the Middle Ages .
The Aachen Treaty, formally Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation and Integration, and also known as the Treaty of Aachen (German: Aachener Vertrag, Vertrag von Aachen, French: Traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle), is a bilateral agreement between Germany and France, which entered into force on 22 January 2020, a year after it was signed. [1]
The new border between France and Germany mainly followed the geo-linguistic divide between French and German dialects, except in a few valleys of the Alsatian side of the Vosges mountains, the city of Metz and its region and in the area of Château-Salins (formerly in the Meurthe département), which were annexed by Germany although most ...
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France then declared war on Germany, which prompted the German invasion and occupation of France from 1940 to 1944. [3] Afterwards, France participated in the Allied occupation of Germany from 1945 to 1949. [4] The post-war West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer made rapprochement between the historic rivals one of his priorities. [5]
John Tenniel: Au Revoir!, Punch 6 August 1881. French–German (Franco-German) enmity [1] (French: Rivalité franco-allemande, German: Deutsch–französische Erbfeindschaft) was the idea of unavoidably hostile relations and mutual revanchism between Germans (including Austrians) and French people that arose in the 16th century and became popular with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.
Paris-soir announcing France's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September 1939. On 3 September 1939—two days after the German invasion of Poland — France declared war on Nazi Germany according to its defensive treaty with Poland , when France's ultimatum to Germany, issued the previous day, expired at 17:00.
The international border between the modern states of France and Germany has a length of 450 km (280 mi). The southern portion of the border, between Saint-Louis at the border with Switzerland and Lauterbourg, follows the River Rhine (Upper Rhine) in a south-to-north direction through the Upper Rhine Plain.