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For much of the post-Second World War era, the close partnership between Germany and France has been the engine of ever closer European integration. However, that calculus is changing, potentially significantly so. Cooperation between these two powers has ebbed and flowed in the past, quite often depending on the personalities of the officeholders in Berlin and Paris. But
For much of the postwar era, Germany and France have been the dynamos of ever-closer European integration. Yet, 60 years on from the landmark Elysee Treaty, this process is taking place in a vastly changed context. When the Elysee Treaty, which established a new foundation for Franco-German relations following centuries of rivalry and wars, was signed by President Charles de