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...From De Gaulle's day on, the E.C.'s chief purpose, as successive Elysee Palace incumbents saw it, was to bind French and Germans so tightly together economically that another war would become unthinkable. In exchange, Paris would champion West German interests in international councils where measures proposed by Bonn might sound Teutonically threatening...
Even in the image department, the hand wringing in Paris before the gulf war measured up favorably, in the end, against Germany's self-paralyzing angst. Bonn's inability to weigh in for battle against Iraq except as a financier was greeted across the Rhine with relief. France's strengthened transatlantic relations have also reinforced the case for keeping U.S. troops in Europe, which Paris endorses as protection against any resurgent Soviet threat and a means of ensuring that Germany remains anchored in the West...
...Brussels-based Center for European Policy Studies, "France came to terms with the fact that it was the end of the era of medium-size states with protectionist policies." Germany continues to rely on its partner in a relationship that is more a symbiosis than an axis. "Paris and Bonn," says German policy analyst Ingo Kolboom, "are condemned to act in concert." Jean-Pierre Cot, the French chairman of the European Parliament's Socialist bloc, sees a bright future for his homeland. He says, "I am struck by the fact that France seen from the E.C. today looks...
Tito's mastery at playing off East against West left him free to quash uppity subjects at home. Now that the East is out of the game, his successors must heed remonstrations from Bonn and Brussels. Among other things, that's where the money is. And Belgrade, like Moscow, is desperate for financial help...
There is no one to lead them now. Officials in Bonn looked the other way last March when Erich Honecker, chairman of East Germany's Council of State and party general secretary, was spirited by Soviet operatives from a military hospital near Potsdam to a similar facility outside Moscow. Honecker faces charges of manslaughter in Germany, but at 78, and reportedly suffering from cancer, he is unlikely ever to face trial. That is also true of Erich Mielke, the former Minister of State Security and boss of the Stasi. Mielke is 83 and, according to his lawyers, incompetent to stand...