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In this exclusive interview with EurActiv, former European Commission President Jacques Delors said Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy maintain a “superficial” alliance which needs to be “rebuilt” — a goal for which he is offering a helping hand.
In the interview, former European Commission President Jacques Delors said Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy maintain a “superficial” alliance which needs to be “rebuilt” — a goal for which he is offering a helping hand.
Delors asks Germany: ‘Are you still true to EU values?’
Interview:Delors: Franco-German alliance is EU’s ‘tree of life’
Delors, who is considered as one of the “fathers” of the EU, compared the French president and the German chancellor to their predecessors.
Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder were only in agreement on saying “nein” or “non”, Delors said, for example on increasing the EU’s budget. But when it came to more ambitious plans, they fell short of taking tangible initiatives, he said.
“[Chirac-Schroeder] was a superficial alliance, as superficial, it seems to me, as the one between Madame Merkel and Monsieur Sarkozy,” Delors said
