Emmanuel Macron begins the first state visit to Germany by a French president in 24 years on Sunday, a pomp-filled three-day trip that is described as a tribute to the Franco-German friendship. Macron is due to arrive in Berlin at 2 pm (1200 GMT). He will head first to the government district, where the “Democracy Festival” celebrating 75 years of Germany’s Basic Law – the democratic constitution adopted in West Germany after World War II – will be held. At the time, West Germany was under occupation by the victorious Western Allies, which included France, Britain and the United States. Macron…