The French President spoke about the former finance minister's importance to the France-Germany relationship.
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00:00 French President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former Finance Minister Wolfgang
00:05 Schäuble at a memorial in the German Parliament. Macron spoke about Schäuble's importance
00:11 to the two countries' relationship. Schäuble, who died in December aged 81, became former
00:17 Chancellor Angela Merkel's Finance Minister in October 2009. In that role, he was a central
00:22 figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis. The memorial
00:28 took place on the anniversary of the Élysée Treaty that was signed on January 22, 1963.