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"Merkel and Chirac fail to hide the tension
By John Lichfield in Paris
Published: 24 January 2006
France and Germany have said they will draw up concrete plans to rescue the European Union from the wreckage of its proposed constitutional treaty.
President Jacques Chirac and Chancellor Angela Merkel, in their first summit since her appointment, promised to kickstart the Franco-German 'motor' to give 'fresh impetus ' to the EU. But the meeting in Versailles yesterday failed to dispel the impression that relations between the two allies had seen better times."
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