Macron and Scholz will mark the anniversary of the 1963 Elysee Treaty signed between post-World War II leader Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle, government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said Friday.
The talks between the leaders of the Franco-German alliance at the heart of the European Union come ahead of Germany's early general election on February 23rd.
Scholz's Social Democrats are polling at just 16 percent, behind the conservative opposition CDU/CSU at 31 percent and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) at 20 percent.
France has been mired in political deadlock since Macron gambled on snap elections last summer in a bid to bolster his authority and combat the surge of the far right.
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The move backfired, with voters electing a parliament fractured between three rival blocs, while Macron's approval ratings hover at record lows.
Support for Ukraine in its almost three-year-old war with Russia is expected to be high on the agenda for Scholz's visit.
The United States has been Ukraine's biggest backer since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, followed by Germany.
But Trump has stoked fears that he will cut military aid or force Ukraine to accept a ceasefire on terms that reward Moscow.
France wants to step up the pace of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, while Scholz's government has been internally split over the idea of providing an extra three billion euros of funding.
Scholz expressed scepticism Friday that the money could be found without extra borrowing, which his minority government cannot authorise alone.
Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky on Monday said he and Macron had discussed the idea of Western military "contingents" being deployed to Ukraine.
Scholz said last month that it was "out of the question that we would send troops or German soldiers to Ukraine in the current situation".
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