German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the just re-elected French President Emmanuel Macron jointly urged concrete steps be taken toward a ceasefire in Ukraine as they met Monday evening in Berlin. “What we want to achieve is a ceasefire, as soon as possible,” Macron said during his inaugural visit to Berlin after French voters handed him a second term two weeks ago. This, he said, was the only way to make headway in the stalled peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, with the ultimate aim of a permanent withdrawal of Russian troops. “That is our goal,” he said. Scholz said that after 10 weeks of w…