The French president said there had been "70 years of bloody conflict, followed by 70 years of peace", he said. Germany and France "had to understand each other". What, asked one journalist, did Frau Merkel think of the outbreak of Germanophobia in France that has seen her likened to Germany's first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who humiliated France in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870?
The insults, which have come mostly from the political left in France, included that Germany was "drunk with power" and suffered a "mental rigidity". - "I have read much of what the press has written about Germany," she said. "What people should know is that we are working together to find common solutions ... We will never confront each other as we did before".
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