[Timmy]

The French obviously suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.

[aposiopetic]

Their efforts culminated earlier this year when the French president, Jacques Chirac, and the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, signed a declaration promising more cooperation in areas ranging from crime to foreign policy.

Whereupon a criminal foreign policy was collectively pursued.

[Skwidd]

Funny...there never was much discussion in previous French/ German unions. =D

[SAMWolf]

The last German/france union cost the US a lot of blood. I guess the french miss the old days of cooperating with the Germans on shipping Jews to the East.

[Monti Cello]

Immediate reactions:

1. The EU must really be in tatters if this is what they are resorting to.
2. Are the French really that stupid?
3. These two deserve each other.
4. This has a certain 'Jerry Springer' sickness about it. Like 'Victims who marry their rapists'.

[maestro]

France and Germany discuss union

Now,......exactly where are they planning to build their new 'concentration camps'.....what types of 'gas'...?

/sarcsam

[Adrastus]

The Feckless French strike again. Since Napoleons day the French have been a net liability. Nothing changes except Germany, after attacking France and being defeated ultimately in both cases by an Anglo-American force, now succeeds by the simple expedient of allowing the French to role over. Perfect. Now the French can drag themselves and the Germans into the cesspit.

[McGavin999]

LOL, the french think the germans are going to bale them out of their financial disaster, and the germans think the french are going to be their financial savior. Instead, the combined unemployment and stiff social costs are going to drag both of them deeper into the cesspool.

[Antoninus]

Why exactly did we go over there and rescue these p*tz-heads twice anyway?

[longtermmemmory]

France and Germany are publicly discussing the possibility of a "Franco-German union"

*** ***** ******

Hitler wins! Why did we even bother?

[cardinal4]

Read Larry Bonds Cauldron. Its about a Franco-German Union that starts WWIII on the Euro contintent. The good thing about the book is Larry paints the French as arrogant, whiny and untrustworthy. Oh, wait a minute....

[Savage Beast]

This'll be fun to watch.

[ellery]

The paper said that at this stage Europe's two most powerful nations, whose historic enmity has been transformed into the main driving force towards European integration, saw the project primarily as a tactic to ensure that countries such as Spain and Poland do not block the planned European constitution...

What could this possibly mean in practice? Franco-Prussian (I mean, German) cooperation does not take away Poland's or Spain's ability to vote against the EU Constitution. Could this be a physical-intimidation-type threat?

Fourth Reich alert.

[Styria]

Maybe if the capital were Aachen....

[MinuteGal]

Ah, this would be a marriage made in heaven.

I presume they'll ask Bishop Robinson to preside over the union?

Leni

[RJL]

France and Germany… see the project primarily as a tactic to ensure that countries such as Spain and Poland do not block the planned European constitution (written by the French, for the French), paralysing the EU as it expands to 25 members next year.

But it is the realisation in both capitals that without the closest possible cooperation, France and Germany could well lose much of their influence in a larger EU that seems to be driving the project for a Franco-German union.

The French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, said the project was "essential" and "the only historic gamble that we cannot lose".

This tells me that the EU is not a “Union” at all, but merely a vehicle used by a desperate France and Germany to dominate the rest of Europe.

[metalboy]

France and Germany discuss union...There`s something very 'gay' sounding about that.

[Unam Sanctam]

Charlemagne would be pleased to see his empire reassembled.

[GeronL]

Then again who believes anything published in the Guardian??

[FITZ]

Isn't this pretty much what we're doing with Mexico?