A fruitless summit

The Franco-German summit held on Saturday evening in Berlin has once again failed to produce concrete results, writes the left-liberal daily La Repubblica: "Yet another Franco-German summit ends with weighty but vague promises. But perhaps this vagueness is the price the Merkel and Sarkozy duo must pay for attempting to play a leading role in the European Union for which they lack both the necessary powers and, it would appear, also the skills. After two years of steering the European ship through the financial storm the results of the Franco-German course are rather mediocre. Merkel may bear the largest portion of the blame for the delays and the major blunders but in his role of servile cavalier to the chancellor the French president also shares responsibility."

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