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France’s Gabriel Attal will make his first visit to Berlin as prime minister on Monday for talks set to focus on international hotspots and improving French-German ties. Attal, who is France’s youngest-ever prime minister at age 34 and the first who is openly gay, will be welcomed in the evening with military honours by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the chancellery. The political high-flyer had served as French government spokesman and education minister. He was appointed last month by President Emmanuel Macron as the successor to the previous prime minister, Élisabeth Borne. The relationsh…

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