Emmanuel Macron arrived in Berlin on Sunday for the first state visit to Germany by a French president in 24 years, a pomp-filled three-day trip that is being described as a tribute to the Franco-German friendship. Macron and his wife Brigitte arrived on Sunday afternoon, after which the French president is set to attend a so-called Democracy Festival marking the 75th anniversary of Germany’s Basic Law – the democratic constitution adopted in West Germany after World War II. At the time, West Germany was under occupation by the victorious Western Allies, which included France, Britain and the …