22 January 2019, North Rhine-Westphalia, Aachen: Armin Laschet (l-r, CDU), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Donald Tusk, President of the EU Council, and Marcel Philipp (CDU), Lord Mayor of Aachen, and Heiko Maas (SPD), Federal Foreign Minister, stand on the balcony of the town hall in front of the signing ceremony of the new Franco-German friendship treaty in the Kцnigssaal of the town hall. The so-called Aachen Treaty follows on from the Йlysee Treaty of Friendship signed by Adenauer and de Gaulle in 1963. Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa