For decades, “reconciliation” and its most remarkable achievement – the Franco-German rapprochement – was the trademark of the project to create an ever closer union in Europe. Reconciliation may seem far off for, say, the peoples of Japan, China, and South Korea, but it is taken for granted by today’s Europeans.
几十年来，化解矛盾及其最显著的成就——法德亲善——是创建一个更加亲密的欧洲的标志性工程。对于日本、中国和南韩这样的国家，调解矛盾已经由来已久，但却被现在的欧洲人忽视了。