“I have always been in favor of the only Europe that is likely to become a political subject: the Europe of two. With the Germans, we have said everything, done everything: we still have to become the only thing, at the same time modest and grandiose, conqueror and peaceful able to give birth to a glimmer of hope in this world of brutes
”, wrote in August in
Le Figaro
the intellectual Jacques Julliard, calling for the constitution of a major Franco-German political and military alliance.
A keen observer of the torments of a "Machiavellian" time, Julliard is not one of the naive.
His fervor for the Paris-Berlin duo, when Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel had just snatched the signature of an agreement creating a European recovery fund of 750 billion euros, is all the more revealing of this passion. tenacious French for a Franco-German couple considered alone capable of building a powerful Europe towards which all the others would “rush”.
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But what do the Germans think?
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