Dear German friends (1) a problematic relationship

A problematic relationship

I quite like Germany, I like your serious and your relaxation, I appreciate your cities and your culture - I was still in Berlin a few days ago. One thing amused me: your newspapers apparently had some trouble to translate "La France insoumise" , they left in quotes, not translated, and explaining that insoumise  was something like rebel, but not quite. This concept, you obviously have some problems with !

Well, problems,  there are many others. You rejoice the victory of Emmanuel Macron, thinking that he will be a loyal liberal support of your Europe. Do not rejoice too quickly. Victory of Emmanuel Macron was not a victory for supporting his program, it was a victory of fear, fear in the first round of left-wing voters who feared a second round Le Pen Fillon, and voters on the right that were alarmed with a second round Mélenchon Le Pen; and the second round, the same. - but with a third of voters ready to leave the Euro and the European Community. Logically, the French have given their President the means to govern; but the record abstention shows clearly that there is no majority, no agreement to realize this type of reforms you like so much and urge us to make, such as the demolition of the labour code.

Don't be fooled. A large part of the french people voted against the Euro and the European Community; It is not that they are ready to leave  with a light heart ; even, I am afraid that , if asked the question, they would say that's not so much leave the European institutions they would like, but to evict you, as you have once again managed to be unbearable . And as for those who voted Macron, don't think they appreciate you a lot more -  a number of them have done so because they believe or hope that he will finally adopt a firmer attitude towards you.

Still, I don't think I am anti-German. My name may let think that I belong more to the Mediterranean sphere, but, by the way, I have at least as much Alsatian blood and family as southern. And for me, but not just  for me, I think it's five to midnight, that these really are the last five years that we give us and you to change radically the European policy.

 Otherwise, bye, bye Euro and European Community, or what will remain of it.  Because it will be better all destroy and leave it to the next generation to rebuild on a better basis.

One of your great statesmen just died. Helmut Kohl (and Helmut Schmitt before him) had a true political vision, they really make Europe  progress- and sometimes against the advice of economists. They knew, they had experienced it in their flesh, that politics has its own domain and  cannot be reduced to economy. They knew the importance of building a Europe where European Nations would live in harmony, in good society, in equality and would increasingly share a common future. 

What a contrast with Angela Merkel, with your Mutti, a lowbrow grocer, which sees Europe as a bigger Germany, defending, oh how effectively, German interests ; Which is normal since you are the best of the Europeans, those that everyone should imitate, oh how, confident and dominating are you again.  Angela Merkel has managed that, again, you are hated, and if European construction stops, your historical responsibility will be overwhelming.

It also seems to me that it is she who killed Helmut Kohl politically, and that he did not think much of her.

What’s wrong? Some answers in  next blog.

A clue. I've been among those who believed in the necessity of the Euro for political reasons, because I couldn't stand this apostrophe from the  Nixon Treasury minister : "the dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem." 

Well, you tell us now :  "euromarck is our currency, but it’s your problem."

It won't do!