Ce qui s’est passé pose aussi la question du couple franco-allemand.
What has happened also raises the question of the Franco-German relationship.
Le couple franco-allemand est un moteur, mais il ne faut pas que ce moteur se change en détonateur qui ferait exploser l’Europe.
The Franco-German relationship is a driving force, but this driving force must not turn into a detonator that would cause Europe to explode.
Et pour cela, effectivement, Klaus Hänsch a raison, le couple franco-allemand retrouvé, l'ambition franco-allemande ressourcée, seront extrêmement utiles.
To this extent, Mr Hänsch is right: the Franco-German partnership that has been re-established and the Franco-German ambition that has been recharged will prove extremely useful.
Un autre élément de poids, c'est aujourd'hui le couple franco-allemand qui aura tenu bon, quitte à payer le prix du courage politique face à plus puissant que soi.
Another influential player on the scene today is the Franco-German alliance, which will have held good, even though it means paying the price of political courage in the face of a greater power.
Hélas, le couple franco-allemand, depuis Nice, ressemble à ces couples qu'avait popularisés le dessinateur français Dubout, et l'on sait désormais qui porte la culotte.
Unfortunately since Nice, the Franco-German twosome looks like one of the couples made popular by the French artist Albert Dubout, and we now know who is wearing the trousers.
J'ai le regret de dire que, l'autre jour, à Luxembourg, les ministres des finances ont rejeté ces propositions à la demande de notre couple franco-allemand - une occasion manquée et un mauvais jour pour nos concitoyens, qui ont une fois de plus le sentiment d'avoir été trahis par la politique.
I regret to say that in Luxembourg the other day, the finance ministers cast aside these proposals at the behest of our Franco-German couple - a missed opportunity and a bad day for our citizens, who quite rightly feel betrayed by politics yet again.
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