Article: How The Crisis Is Reviving The Old French-German Axis.(International Edition; EUROPE)(French-German relations)

Article: EUROFILE: BIG ISSUE: FRANCO-GERMAN AXIS: The ...
The Independent - London;  January 18, 2003 ;     592 words ... ... present this project to the EU Convention, and convince our fellow member countries to accept it. However, the Franco- German axis is viewed with ambivalent feelings. EU members unwillingly acknowledge that when Berlin and Paris disagree, Europe is at ...

Article: Franco-German axis revived in EU tax reform plan
The Independent - London;  December 3, 2002 ;     571 words ...FRANCE AND Germany have bolstered their rejuvenated diplomatic alliance with plans to push important tax harmonisation measures through the European Union. The initiative, which would cover corporate tax and VAT, is part of a concerted effort by the governments in Paris and Berlin to revive the

Article: The Franco-German axis creaks. (France-Germany ...
The Economist (US);  May 9, 1998 ;     700+ words ...BONN AND PARIS WHENEVER French and Germans get vexed by each other, as they often do, they rush to claim that their "special relationship" is as sound as ever. But does German fury with France after the recent scrap over the European bank's presidency herald a real froideur between the two main

Article: Revitalised Franco-German axis further sidelines UK
The Independent - London;  January 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ...PARIS AND Berlin will finalise plans today for unprecedented co- operation between ministers, defence chiefs and law-makers in the capitals under a far-reaching plan to revive the Franco-German alliance. The agreement, to be unveiled next week on the 40th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty of

Article: EUROPEAN CONVENTION: FRANCO-GERMAN 'AXIS' IN JOINT ...
European Report;  November 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The EU needs to develop a "global vision" in the face of "global threats" to its security, encompassing a "wide range" of methods including judicial and police co-operation, economic and financial instruments, civil protection and military means. To this end, the possibility for member states to

Article: Europe isolates Franco-German axis
Human Events;  February 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Many Western media outlets in recent days have focused attention on anti-American street demonstrations in Europe and on French and German opposition to President Bush's policy on Saddam Hussein. These reports create the impression that Europe does not support the President's ultimatum to the Iraqi

Article: Still the best of friends in the Franco-German motor? The ...
The Economist (US);  November 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ...WITH three weeks to go before the European Union's leaders gather in Nice, nerves are jangling-and nowhere more so than in Paris and Berlin. The trouble, once again, is that France and Germany, the two countries that have driven the Union ever since its inception-and in its various guises-are not