Merkel receives Hollande with military honors at its first meeting

German Chancellor Angela Merkel , today received the new French president, Francois Hollande , with military honors on arrival at the Federal Chancellery to start shortly after their first encounter bilateral. Hollande became the seat of government Germanic with delay time and room on the schedule, and he was forced to change planes in Paris, after the apparatus in which initially began traveling was hit by lightning shortly after off. The Socialist politician came to Berlin on his first visit abroad within hours after being sworn in as the seventh head of state of the V French Republic. Merkel and Sarkozy will have a first exchange of views and then appear together before the press and then hold a working dinner before returning to Paris Chirac. Both the Chancellor and his spokesman, Steffen Seibert, have stressed in recent days that the event is known as a fundamental purpose, since never before have found personally, but is sure to address the crisis in the euro area. Seibert said yesterday that it is not "a summit-making, but a first meeting to get to know", but the appointment has been prepared carefully by both sides since the election victory in the presidential galas Hollande. Both Berlin and Paris also have reiterated in recent days the importance of traditional Franco-German friendship for Europe and its role as a combination in the European Union.