No one would like to mention the war. But they are not fixed. With the explosion of anti-German feeling in France, Germany, it is difficult to avoid stereotypes of European history.
If anyone doubted that charge, they only have to look at the arrangement of three Flag behind the two leaders when they gave a press conference ending a mini-summit.
There are three colors-French Red, white and blue right and three black, red and yellow are colors left Germany. If You carefully look at artful arrangement, You can only see the flag of the European Union in the back, with only two stars of the show.
This is the background to the long-awaited Eu several possibilities. Sarkozy and Merkel jumped on tiptoe around each other, talking about the "Friendship" and "entente" and "alliance" and "a dynamic, living relationship".
But French President just came out with: there is a "70 years of bloody conflict, followed by 70 years of peace", he said. Germany and France "must understand each other".