Hollande Merkel will meet on the day of his taking possession

The new French president, Francois Hollande, is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday May 15 afternoon in Berlin, a few hours after taking office. Both leaders have a working lunch and then offer a press conference . The expected event has attracted the attention of the media that speculated with the possibility that the meeting took place on 16 May as the day before Hollande took office. But the president will not take even 24 hours in talking with the German leader on the future of Europe. Hollande wants to reopen negotiations on the European fiscal pact which seeks to include measures to encourage growth. Although German Chancellor has already warned that the renegotiation of the pact is impossible because the control of public spending and deficit reduction are, in their opinion, prescriptions for economic recovery in the Eurozone. Merkel said yesterday that the majority of citizens agree that "the crisis will be a long process" and that must be addressed to overcome structural problems in some European countries, as "catastrophic debt"or "lack of competitiveness." Three days later, on Friday May 18, Hollande visit Barack Obama in the White House and then meet with the other G8 leaders at Camp David near Washington, according to diplomatic sources have confirmed.