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Sarkozy has seen classic French demands of what France wants the EU and ECB to be like, getting more acceptance and support. More centralism, less independence of the ECB, politics ordering economics Paris style, getting closer to a federal state of Europe (that Fraqnce plans to dominate due to own power and centralist design), and Germany's finances being taken hostage for the sake of French interest, and French designed EU. All this are classical drives and goals of French Euro-policy, since a very long time. And Merkel time and again has given in to such demands, falling for their deceptive cloathes in which the French have dressed them to make the Germans swallow them. What France has given for that? Confessions over intentions that indicate future plans that possibly would turn into to-be-detailed processes in a future, maybe, with huge French intention to express its sympathy and it's agreement with these intended, projected, possibly happening projects that probably could take place in a not specified near or far away future.

Sarkozy has outmanouvered Merkel so often now, that this really reveals how impotent and stupid this woman really is. The running joke in Berlin is that under Merkel the German political class has learned how to get pulled over the table by the French without the Germans even realising it anymore - to avoid the pain of burning wounds from friction.