German is a Germanic language.

English is a Germanic language.

Angela Merkel is a German politician.

Of course, the Franco German engine cannot function as before.

The German example is highly relevant for France and Sarkozy at this critical juncture.

Today, Germany has joined France in neglecting the smaller members for the sake of being recognized as one of the big boys.

So the Franco German couple has lost the credit it once enjoyed.

To achieve this, the Global Change Council of Germany (WGBU) suggests that a budget formula be adopted.

What is required, therefore, is an open bilateral French German dialogue about a comprehensive realignment of the monetary union.

The Franco German couple could no longer claim to speak for the EU as a whole.

This is the British idea of Europe, and the German Constitutional Court, too, would probably be happy about such a development.

In particular, the Franco German engine of Europe should not be seen as a potential rival to the US.

In Munich, he headed the first German university institute of sociology, but never held a professorial position in sociology.

Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold (February 16, 1804 April 7, 1885) was a German physiologist and zoologist.

After 1945, Western Europe undertook painful debates about history, and these helped bring about Franco German reconciliation. Notions about collective guilt were put aside as having no place in a united and uniting Europe.

After 1945, Western Europe undertook painful debates about history, and these helped bring about Franco German reconciliation.

Karl Friedrich von Klöden (21 May 1786 Berlin 9 January 1856 Berlin) was a German educator, historian, and geographer.

But German Chancellor Angela Merkel opposed a joint EU wide guarantee each country had to take care of its own banks.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is obviously more positive on Europe and more pro reform than her predecessor, but she is tied up in a grand coalition.

It sometimes seems that the only eurozone leader who is willing to face the likely prospect of future debt restructuring is German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Unfortunately, it has become clear that the Franco German engine, which is crucial to the EU acting in unison, is momentarily blocked.

Europe s Franco German locomotive has broken down and ratification has stopped, even though member states that had yet to ratify the treaty could have completed the process of ratification.

The German court s rationale was that the European Parliament election is not a true election, because the principle of one person, one vote is not respected.

For most of modern history, the Franco German antagonism the two countries' so called hereditary enmity haunted Europe and the world.

Moreover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the liberty of pondering whether imperiled states should be excluded from the eurozone.

A further lesson for Sarkozy from Germany is that an enlightened corporate state needs supportive political leadership as well as accommodating trade unions.

Afrikaans, a West Germanic language mostly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, is the third largest language in South Africa after Zulu and Xhosa.

Yet French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, with the assistance of his counselor Jean Monnet, announced a plan for the ECSC in 1950, only five years after German troops had left Paris, with the aim of making war not only unthinkable but materially impossible. Schuman proposed putting Franco German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, thereby preventing the two sides from using the raw materials of war against each other, and powering a common industrial economy.

Schuman proposed putting Franco German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, thereby preventing the two sides from using the raw materials of war against each other, and powering a common industrial economy.

This is partly because German Chancellor Angela Merkel, currently maneuvering to ensure that a German is the next head of the ECB, does not want the Fund to become more involved in euro zone policies. The IMF might reasonably take the position that ECB policies have been overly contractionary resulting in a strong euro and very low inflation and are no longer appropriate for member countries in the midst of a financial collapse.

This is partly because German Chancellor Angela Merkel, currently maneuvering to ensure that a German is the next head of the ECB, does not want the Fund to become more involved in euro zone policies.

Due to the economies of scale that the common market made possible, Nokia was able to exploit its inventions fully, while Germany s Siemens recently decided to give up on the mobile phone market.

For all German Chancellors from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Kohl, France was the favorite European partner, but they refused to accept French offers to create a Franco German union that would destroy the mediating character of German foreign policy.

The traumatic experience of western disunity over Iraq in the UN Security Council with the governments of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder leading the resistance to the US UK led invasion of Iraq demonstrated that Franco German bilateralism has destructive side effects.

In 2012, it was reported that some lichen and cyanobacteria survived and showed remarkable adaptation capacity for photosynthesis after 34 days in simulated Martian conditions in the Mars Simulation Laboratory (MSL) maintained by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).