Teetering on the Edge: Franco-German Divorce Around the Corner?
SputnikNews.com
16.07.2015
The Greek crisis has tested the Franco-German relations, underlying European integration, to their limit and the “old couple” seems to have set on a path to divorce, said François Heisbourg, chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Paris and Berlin are at the heart of the European project.
“The often-forgotten secret is that France and Germany rule the roost not because they agree but because they do not: De Gaulle wanted a Europe of nation states, Adenauer was a self-avowed federalist, and a few days ago Berlin was actively considering Grexit, while Paris worked to keep Greece in the single currency,” Heisbourg noted.
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