The paper was commissioned a few days after the IMF’s Annual Meetings last month, at a gathering of the French finance and economy ministers, Michel Sapin and Emmanuel Macron, and their German counterparts, Wolfgang Schäuble and Sigmar Gabriel. Though the meeting produced no concrete policy action – as the French daily Le Monde put it, “nothing was asked for, and nothing was obtained” – it could signal the beginning of more effective Franco-German cooperation, guided by the Pisani-Ferry/Enderlein report.
该文章在上个月IMF年会结束后几天寿命而作。在IMF年会上，法国财政部长米歇尔·萨宾（Michel Sapin）和经济部长艾曼努尔·马科伦（Emmanuel Macron）和他们的德国同侪沃尔夫冈·朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）和西格玛尔·加布里埃尔（Sigmar Gabriel）举行了会晤。尽管这次会议没有产生实质政策行动——法国《世界报》（Le Monde）称“没有任何要求，也没有得到任何东西”——但也许仍释放出信号表明法国和德国将在皮萨尼-费里/恩德莱恩报告的指引下进行更有效的合作。