But Helmut and Jacques, they're not

THEY are Europe's odd couple: she, the cautious anti-communist physicist, who wants the European constitution but says economic reform can be delayed; he, the animated former Maoist turned law professor, who bangs on about economic reform but says that the constitution should be postponed. Mismatched as they may seem, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission's president, have struck up the most important political relationship in the European Union. …
(The Economist)



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