Their rhetoric suggests that France and Germany have a great deal in common, but the facts speak a completely different language. In nearly all strategic aspects of EU crisis management, Germany and France are blocking each other – although ironically, both are doing virtually the same thing.
不幸的是，现在已经很清楚，法德这个对欧盟行动一致起至关重要作用的引擎，暂时熄火了。他们在公开言论中认为法国和德国有许多共通之处，但事实上却完全不是这样。在几乎所有的管理欧盟危机的战略层面，德国和法国正在互相阻碍对方-虽然具有讽刺意味的是它们几乎都在做同样的事情。他们首先想到的是自己而不是欧洲，因此，这里毫无领袖作风可言。