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Article: Spectacle or substance? Franco-German relations.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2003
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It is unclear whether this week's grandiose reaffirmation of friendship in Versailles between France and Germany will lead to a genuinely new relationship
AS AN exercise in pomp and protocol, the declaration of renewed Franco-German friendship will be hard to beat. On January 22nd, President Jacques Chirac and Chancellor Gerhard Schroder met at the Elysee Palace to pledge their nations' faith in a shared future. Some 603 German MPs had been invited to join 577 French counterparts in a special congress in the palace of Versailles. The next day the theme was the same but the location had changed: Mr Chirac was in Berlin, making two speeches of suitable gravity and ...
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