Article: Je t'aime, ich auch nicht; Franco-German relations.(The weaker Franco-German relationship)

Behind the smiles for the cameras, the Franco-German relationship is more fragile than meets the eye

WHEN Germany's Helmut Kohl and France's Francois Mitterrand held hands at the battlefields of Verdun 20 years ago, it was a high point of Franco-German reconciliation. When their successors, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and President Jacques Chirac, gather in Normandy on June 6th to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, their meeting will be equally moving and symbolic. It will be the first time a German leader has participated in D-Day celebrations, and will be followed by a Franco-German "reconciliation ceremony" at the Caen Memorial Museum. Yet, this moment ...

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