奧朗德宣誓就職 首次出訪專機遭雷擊大綱

Francois Hollande had quite a first day as French president: swearing in, Champs Elysees parade in torrential rain, then a lightning strike to his plane en route to meet the world's most powerful woman.

Hollande could already consider himself unlucky with the one-in-a-million lightning strike that delayed his visit to Berlin to see Chancellor Angela Merkel and his luck with the weather did not improve as he arrived in Germany.

Merkel was all smiles as she greeted the new president and appeared relaxed throughout. Hollande, on his first foreign trip as France's leader, seemed stiffer and less at ease, only sometimes cracking a smile.

The leaders of Europe's two powerhouses engaged in a brief handshake -- gone the kisses on the cheeks Merkel had with Hollande's predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy -- then squelched onto the red carpet, flanked by a military band.

Waving briefly to a handful of onlookers huddled under umbrellas, the two leaders stood side-by-side for the two national anthems, she in her customary pose with hands clasped at her front, he almost standing to attention.

The journey across the Rhine was anything other than auspicious, with Hollande's presidential Falcon forced to return to Paris "for safety reasons and as a precaution" after being hit by lightning.

At the highly awaited news conference, Merkel said the fact he made it to Berlin despite the unlikely event of a lightning strike was "maybe a good omen for our co-operation."

They made the most of what they could agree on, but Hollande warned ominously that "everything was on the table" concerning EU economic policy, ahead of a meeting of European leaders in Brussels on May 23.

"This meeting wasn't intended to answer all the questions that have been asked, but was mainly meant for us to get to know each other better, to establish ties, a working method, to find a solution together" to the crisis, said Hollande.法國新任總統弗朗索瓦•奧朗德任職的第一天堪稱非比尋常：宣誓就職；在香榭麗舍大道乘車巡遊時突降暴雨；隨後在飛往德國與默克爾會面途中又遭遇雷擊。

奧朗德可能以爲，遇到概率極低的雷擊事件，導致他推遲了去柏林與德國總理默克爾的會晤已經實屬不幸，但在他抵達柏林後，天氣也沒變好。

默克爾在迎接這位新總統時笑容滿面，一直非常輕鬆。此次是奧朗德首次以法國總統的身份出訪，他看上去比較緊張，不太輕鬆，只是偶爾露個笑臉。

歐洲兩個大國的領導人先握了握手，而不是像默克爾之前會見奧朗德的前任薩科奇那樣互相親吻面頰，之後兩人在軍樂隊的伴奏下走上紅毯。

兩位領導人朝舉着傘的民衆揮了揮手，之後並肩站在一起聽兩國的國歌演奏。默克爾習慣性地把手扣在前面，奧朗德一直肅立傾聽。

這次橫跨萊茵河的出訪行程最初不太走運，奧朗德的總統專機獵鷹型座機在突遭雷擊之後，“爲了安全起見，同時也爲了預防事故發生”被迫返回巴黎。

默克爾在衆人期待已久的新聞發佈會上表示，儘管遭遇雷擊返航，但奧朗德仍飛往德國訪問“是兩國開展合作的好兆頭”。

兩人最大範圍地達成了一致，但奧朗德提醒說，考慮到歐洲的經濟政策，“所有的問題都可以公開來談”。歐洲各國領導人將於5月23日在布魯塞爾舉行會晤。

奧朗德說：“這次會晤不是爲了解決所提出的所有問題，主要是爲了增進了解，建立聯繫和工作方法，一起找到應對危機的解決辦法。”