Archive for June 30th, 2010

After 59 years of marriage:

Meanwhile Germany and France, the two countries on whose close and strategic cooperation the entire EU system depends, have opposite views about how the current crisis should be addressed. The French think the Germans should pay through the nose to keep the euro going while increasing the German government deficit to bolster the European economy. The Germans think the French should shut up.

Walter Russell Mead: G-20 Fiddles; World Burns.