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Talks May Test Partnership Between a Weak France and a Strong Germany
[The New York Times]
Armed with a new mandate and a solid legislative majority, France’s François Hollande is off to do battle with Germany’s Iron Chancellor in the name of growth, prosperity and human decency. Or that’s the popular image, at least, of what is in fact a more delicate and nuanced relationship between the new French president and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. The partnership between Europe’s two largest economies — the fourth- and fifth-largest in the world — has been vital to the functioning of the European Union and the 17-nation euro zone. And it has thrived under leaders from similar parties or different ones; the euro itself is a French-German confection.
But the marriage is now under considerable strain, and France is very much on the defensive, not just because of the endless euro crisis, which is now undermining its southern European allies Spain and Italy, but because of the growing weakness of the French economy as well, which makes the French-German couple less than equal.
Lire : nytimes.com
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