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...With a new wave of anti-French anger rising in the U.S., Chirac and Schröder are preparing for private meetings in New York this week with George W. Bush. Reports from Washington suggest that the Bush Administration still hopes to bust up the Franco-German entente by pulling the Germans aboard and isolating the French. But analysts in both countries say that may be beyond the reach of Bush's team. "The German political class wants nothing more than a reasonable partner in the U.S.A.," says Henrik Uterwedde, deputy director of the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg...
...German party supporters? Or possibly a payoff from foreign businessmen? Andre Guelfi, a French businessman known as Dede the Sardine because of his ownership of a now defunct Moroccan fishing company, said he helped pass more than $40 million to the C.D.U. to help secure a contract for a German-French joint venture. He has since backtracked on many of his accusations, which are being investigated by French and Swiss justice officials...
...include the Americans. We need them not only for military security, as important as that is, but in every possible way -- in the economic field, in the cultural field. For the future of Germans in the 21st century, it is of existential importance that our policy rest on two secure pillars: the German- American pillar and the German-French pillar. It is not a matter of either- or but one of as-well-as. And that does not mean we are diminishing other partners...
Says he: "Among the reasons it is truly difficult to have a dialogue with the Americans and English is that for them the critical question for the philosopher is, 'Is it true?' whereas the German-French tradition consists basically of posing the question, 'Why do we think as we do? What effect does it have?' I consider the problems that I pose to be those of modern...
...French, who normally like to go it alone, are the most aggressive joint-effort boosters. This year the Transall, a German-French military-cargo plane, is to go into service. The Breguet 1150 antisubmarine aircraft, produced by France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, is also being delivered. A FrancoBritish combine has announced plans to build a supersonic Jaguar fighter. And France and Britain are thinking of spending $2 billion for a twin-engined variable-geometry fighter to compete with...