A Momentary EU Truce Jobs Pact Reflects Bonn-Paris Power Struggle

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: June 12, 1997| Author: Tom Buerkle | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

06-12-1997

France and Germany appeared Wednesday to be headed toward a resolution of their latest dispute over European monetary union, but the history of their differences suggests that any accord will be no more than a mo-

mentary truce in their long struggle for control of Europe's economic agenda.

That fundamental gap was underlined Wednesday by the starkly different interpretations the two governments put on a compromi...

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