France does not need a power struggle with Germany

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French President Emmanuel Macron should not pick a fight with Germany, writes Dr Michael Ivanovitch. Instead, he should be focusing on the economy and expanding foreign markets for French goods and services.

He's also said that "anyone who believes [that] the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error."A long-serving prime minister of Luxembourg, Juncker was also known as an indefatigable mediator of French-German disputes.

was using its strong economic position to reinforce its EU's political dominance. But last week, he sounded like he admitted to having failed in that important mission.Even before he became president, Macron traveled to Germany to assure his future partners he would consolidate the French public finances and reform product and labor markets to narrow the structural gap between the French and German economies.

Predictably, France's high unemployment, rising poverty, social unrest and nearly a year of violent demonstrations have damped Macron's reformist zeal. He has also reversed the fiscal discipline he imposed to satisfy the German drive to balanced public sector accounts within the euro area.never had a chance; they were peremptorily rejected by Berlin.

 

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