For more than 60 years, France and Germany have been official friends – or more than friends. They have been diplomatic ‘besties’, the indispensable ‘couple’ at the heart of the European Union.
In the 1950s, they were the motor that drove the creation of what became the EU. Since the early 1990s, they have conceived or delivered the most ambitious European policies, from the single currency to borderless freedom of movement and – with the help of Thatcherite Britain – the single market.
